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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 with their tracking and spyware. Reminds me a lot of AOL's strategy back in the day.

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I 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.

LMFTFY:

It is IMPOSSIBLE to copy search result link. Not just "difficult".

have 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'

I'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

Exactly! 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.

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