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Whenver i am trying to share a news article with a friend, and Google throws up the AMP page at me, I take the time to select the original article link and shar

Whenver i am trying to share a news article with a friend, and Google throws up the AMP page at me, I take the time to select the original article link and share that. Websites deserve their own traffic, not Google's.

chalst 5y ago
Not having to do this is a good reason to use another search engine than Google's as your default.
AgentME 5y ago
Is that very different from "Whenever I find a site hosted through CloudFlare, I look up the origin server's IP address and link to that. Webservers deserve traffic, not CDNs."?
- roofwellhams 5y ago
  If Google decided to remove your link, then it's gone. If cloudflare removes your link, you can easily just change provider.
- ericyan 5y ago
  Unlike a normal CDN, AMP does not serve the same content as the origin. You need to make a special, lite edition of the original web page which does not work on Safari or Firefox, and may not necessarily make your site faster. [1] You cannot switch AMP cache to another vendor if you want Google rank your AMP site higher. [2] You also need a speical TLS certificate with the CanSignHttpExchanges extension that can only be get from DigiCert (for a price)[3] and not from Let's Encrypt [4]. [1] https://unlikekinds.com/article/google-amp-page-speed https://unlikekinds.com/article/google-amp-page-speed [2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/41683427 https://stackoverflow.com/a/41683427 [3] https://web.dev/how-to-set-up-signed-http-exchanges/#step-1 https://web.dev/how-to-set-up-signed-http-exchanges/#step-1 [4] https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cansignhttpexchanges-extension/90658 https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cansignhttpexchanges-ext...
  - Jyaif 5y ago
    > You need to make a special, lite edition of the original web page which does not work on Safari or Firefox AMP being a subset of HTML, that does not look accurate.
    - ericyan 5y ago
      It is not just about the markup. Mozilla and Apple made it very clear they won't implement this (for good): https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5745285984681984 https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5745285984681984
- shakna 5y ago
  Yes. Google are facing many lawsuits that suggest that AMP manipulated the ads platforms, in their favour. Using a different CDN shouldn't significantly impact a site's income, but using AMP may have.
- devit 5y ago
  You can't do that, assuming that it was set up properly (i.e. they either set up CloudFlare immediately without disclosing the server IPs in the first place, or blocked all non-CloudFlare traffic on the firewall).
310260 5y ago
Same here. In some cases, AMP screws up the article formatting as well at least in my experience. I never share the Google/AMP link if I can help it.
SquareWheel 5y ago
You don't need to do this. Clicking the Share button will grab the canonical URL, which is the original source article.

chalst 5y ago

Not having to do this is a good reason to use another search engine than Google's as your default.

AgentME 5y ago

Is that very different from "Whenever I find a site hosted through CloudFlare, I look up the origin server's IP address and link to that. Webservers deserve traffic, not CDNs."?

roofwellhams 5y ago
If Google decided to remove your link, then it's gone. If cloudflare removes your link, you can easily just change provider.
ericyan 5y ago
Unlike a normal CDN, AMP does not serve the same content as the origin. You need to make a special, lite edition of the original web page which does not work on Safari or Firefox, and may not necessarily make your site faster. [1] You cannot switch AMP cache to another vendor if you want Google rank your AMP site higher. [2] You also need a speical TLS certificate with the CanSignHttpExchanges extension that can only be get from DigiCert (for a price)[3] and not from Let's Encrypt [4]. [1] https://unlikekinds.com/article/google-amp-page-speed https://unlikekinds.com/article/google-amp-page-speed [2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/41683427 https://stackoverflow.com/a/41683427 [3] https://web.dev/how-to-set-up-signed-http-exchanges/#step-1 https://web.dev/how-to-set-up-signed-http-exchanges/#step-1 [4] https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cansignhttpexchanges-extension/90658 https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cansignhttpexchanges-ext...
- Jyaif 5y ago
  > You need to make a special, lite edition of the original web page which does not work on Safari or Firefox AMP being a subset of HTML, that does not look accurate.
  - ericyan 5y ago
    It is not just about the markup. Mozilla and Apple made it very clear they won't implement this (for good): https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5745285984681984 https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5745285984681984
shakna 5y ago
Yes. Google are facing many lawsuits that suggest that AMP manipulated the ads platforms, in their favour. Using a different CDN shouldn't significantly impact a site's income, but using AMP may have.
devit 5y ago
You can't do that, assuming that it was set up properly (i.e. they either set up CloudFlare immediately without disclosing the server IPs in the first place, or blocked all non-CloudFlare traffic on the firewall).

310260 5y ago

Same here. In some cases, AMP screws up the article formatting as well at least in my experience. I never share the Google/AMP link if I can help it.

SquareWheel 5y ago

You don't need to do this. Clicking the Share button will grab the canonical URL, which is the original source article.