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I love how difficult it's becoming to actually ever visit a website from a google result, especially on mobile. And even when you do you're usually still stuck
by fancyfacebook 9y ago
I love how difficult it's becoming to actually ever visit a website from a google result, especially on mobile. And even when you do you're usually still stuck with their tracking and spyware. Reminds me a lot of AOL's strategy back in the day.
- pmart123 9y agoI find this to be extremely annoying as well as it obscures the site link as well as it makes it very difficult to copy the source link if I want to share it. I think the comparison to AOL's strategy in 2000 is very warranted.
- nasredin 9y agoLMFTFY: It is IMPOSSIBLE to copy search result link. Not just "difficult".
- cat199 9y agohave been running browser mods for ~5y to do this. it's a pain. but it works. currently greasemonkey 'direct link out' and 'bypass google redirect'
- newscracker 9y agoI've been using "Google Search Link Fix" with Firefox (for a long time) to get the direct links on search results. [1] [1]: https://github.com/palant/searchlinkfix https://github.com/palant/searchlinkfix
- dannyw 9y agoExactly! I hope the EU looks into the whole AMP (both web and the recently announced and universally panned email) program for antitrust violations. I bet if they subpoena Google, they WILL find A/B tests and experiments on increasing engagement & time spent on google.com through AMP changes. How that fits into the antitrust framework is not my subject area, but Google needs to be reigned in.