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by colinbartlett 3448 days ago
AMP is absolutely infuriating. I constantly share links via iOS extensions, for example Slack, and AMP gives me this ridiculous google.com link.

I've thought about building an adblock style blocking mechanism for these links. But it seems I'd end up blocking an increasingly large percentage of the search results.
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ninkendo 3448 days ago
No joke, it became enough of an issue for me that I ended up switching to DuckDuckGo on mobile. It's been around 3 months now.

Google really really really needs to fix amp links.

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mort96 3447 days ago
I switched to iOS this christmas. One of the first things I did was try to google something, get infuriated by the crappy AMP user experience, get even more infuriated there was no way to disable it anywhere, and switch to DDG.
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detaro 3448 days ago
Instead of blocking them you could automatically redirect them to the non-AMP version, which is linked with rel="canonical".
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