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How to disable AMP caching from Google Search?

Some results on Google Search comes with AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) icon on theirs links, at least when using a mobile, as soon you click on the link instead of loading the site, google show you a cached version of it rather.

I want to disable this behaviour on my results, I see at least two good reasons for it:

  1. When sharing the link it is a pain in the neck to have the huge google URL in place of the shorter one would be just with the original one.

  2. Security: when you access any site and see a URL other than the site you wanted to load, you should distrust it, even if it looks like google (remember, you can get phished or even get caught in a trap hosted on gsites), Google should respect that instead of encouraging users to trust it just because the url looks like google! Even worst if combined with the first reason and you want to share the URL with a friend.

I have to remove the google AMP prefix ever and ever, there is no advanced search option or cookie that makes Google give the clean URL?

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Tiago Pimenta Avatar asked Dec 04 '16 22:12

Tiago Pimenta


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According to the AMP project FAQ you cannot:

By using the AMP format, content producers are making the content in AMP files available to be cached by third parties.

As a content producer I dislike Google adding their own URL, and branding around my content... From the consumer perspective looks like the content comes from Google. They say it is to improve speed, but you can see Google's intention behind this "free" technology.

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RogerS Avatar answered Sep 22 '22 12:09

RogerS