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And they're not even trying to pretend to be subtle about it anymore. AMP is the best example. Google is acting almost like malware, taking over a site and dest

And they're not even trying to pretend to be subtle about it anymore. AMP is the best example. Google is acting almost like malware, taking over a site and destroying the experience. It's honestly sad. Google could have gone in such a different direction. They're sitting on a gold mine but they caved into investor pressure to keep on pumping more gold instead of being happy with just the billions they would have made anyway.

1propionyl 6y ago
As an experiment, try adding ampproject.org and google.com/amp to your blacklist and living with it for a week. I've been doing this for quite a while now, and it's placed in stark relief how bad the problem is getting. It used to be that a few results were AMP, usually news sites, but you could easily bypass it via the (i) icon. Then it was that most results that were content focused (not dynamic sites or web apps) were were AMP, but you could easily bypass it. Today, most results are AMP, even for sites which are dynamic (e.g. Reddit), and to make matters worse, the (i) links of many websites have now started linking to AMP pages themselves. You might be thinking "ah, well those are their self-hosted copies. Shouldn't that be fine? The problem is Google's use of AMP, not the format itself, right?" Funny thing that: those "self-hosted" AMP pages also won't load with the above two blacklist rules. Also, many image search results are now somehow AMP (...how does that even make sense? It's just an image, so just serve me the image!). And for a while, you couldn't bypass it at all.