Google Says It Inadvertently Removed Ability To Visit URLs From 'Image Search' AMP Pages 16
DevNull127 writes: Wednesday someone calling themself "Zenexer" complained on Twitter that Google "appears to be phasing out the ability to visit the original URL from an AMP page. Tapping the info icon in the top left used to provide the option to visit the real URL. Currently only an issue in Image Search."
"This is an oversight," tweeted Malte Ubl, the Google software engineer who created AMP (and a member of its Technical Steering Committee), citing a conversation he'd had with the Image Search team, who said they'd be adding back the feature soon. "Sorry about that and thanks for the report!"
When asked about a timeline for a possible fix, he responded "Sorry, no way to do it in fewer than a couple days."
"This is an oversight," tweeted Malte Ubl, the Google software engineer who created AMP (and a member of its Technical Steering Committee), citing a conversation he'd had with the Image Search team, who said they'd be adding back the feature soon. "Sorry about that and thanks for the report!"
When asked about a timeline for a possible fix, he responded "Sorry, no way to do it in fewer than a couple days."
Kill Amp (Score:1)
Seriously, get rid of it already.
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Re:Kill Amp (Score:4, Interesting)
Re: Kill Amp (Score:2)
I came here for the same reason, and I suspect it's not related to the hardware connectors.
Re:Kill Amp (Score:5, Informative)
It's a way to optimise pages for faster loading of Google's advertising and tracking scripts.
Yeah, use Startpage.com (Score:2)
Or DuckDuckGo or whatever.
Or shut up, cause you're part of the problem
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Why was amp invented? (Score:2)
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I don’t see any benefit. Can someone clarify?
The web is quietly being locked down and being obfuscated so that it can be turned back into "one way" broadcast medium like TV where you have no rights and can only "stream" apps from servers remotely. When browsers/sites were honest you could see the "sneaky" URL's that companies would stick in their web pages, so they've been slowly changing the web so that apps are run "remotely" or in the browser and you get no ownership to enable these new "services". If you look at the new wave "Web enabled" softw
Re: Why was amp invented? (Score:1)
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The negative spin on all of this is that this is something that Google pushes for its own benefits. Google does promote mobile search results that are in AMP format. Google also kind of acts like a man-in-the-middle as AMP requests go through Google servers.
Google, Please Stuff Your Fucking AMP Up Your Ass (Score:2)
Testing priority (Score:2)
Ok, this may have been a bug or oversight, but making sure the creator of these works could possibly get a click-through must have been WAY down their priority list if they didnâ(TM)t have any automated tests or quality control to make sure itâ(TM)s functional. This is more of a âoeoh dang, you caught us. Ok I guess weâ(TM)ll do that after allâ situation.
"Inadvertently" my ass (Score:2)