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the whole point of umatrix is that you shouldn't implicitly trust content from third party domains, even if they are big and ubiquitous. but this breaks the CDN design pattern (where every website.com loads assests from randomnamecdn.net) and the framework design pattern (where website.com JavaScript references a common "library" at code.jquery.com). If you want stuff to just mostly work first time with the minimum of effort, try uBlock or Ad Nauseum instead.
btw, google documents AMP here: https://developers.google.com/amp/
So... You are saying it isn't open source? Like you dont believe them with all the documentation they have on the project? Because it clearly is open source, if you believe they are lying better post on a sub about web dev.
Either way that doesnt have to do anything with the AMP technology, sites can host their own AMP pages but its easier to just let Google cached everything. https://developers.google.com/amp/cache/
If you want to contribute to the project, is on GitHub https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml
Also, if you're concerned with privacy, AMP makes web pages flow through Google caching servers. So basically you're getting fast and mobile-formatted web pages and Google gets to know that you did.
That's not what the bot is doing. u/amputatorbot scans for this specific HTML tag:
<link href=(...) rel=canonical>
This normally contains the original source. But it found:
<link rel="canonical" href="https://developers.google.com/amp/">
Which is just the same url again. This specific tag is normally not even there when the URL is not built with AMP.
So yeah that sucks. I will have to do some tweaking, the false positive should have been caught earlier. I'm working on a solution. My bad :(
Bullshit tech for easy cross-devices mobile compatibility. It's usually coupled with a Google content delivery network for all the common usual javascript files, which provides Google even more spying data (IP, user agent, referer) on visitors of the various websites that use it this way.
It's possible you're seeing AMP (accelerated mobile pages). Google offers technology that enables web sites to deliver a much faster non-interactive version of their page quickly.
One optional piece of this is AMP cache, where Google serves the page out of their own cache rather than redirecting you to the actual page.
> The pages are hosted on your own server
That is specifically untrue. The entire point of AMP, is to load the page from the AMP-cache. Such as bing's or Google's. It is offloading your page so you aren't hosting it anymore.
You're right, its not 'proof' I was just explaining what they do do.
here is the link on their developers site that explicitly says using the cache means users are beholden to their privacy policy, which spells out what they keep and how they store it.
Fair advice, the url *.cdn.ampproject.org refers to Google's ways of Caching everything for "speed." It's not fake.
Here's some sources :
cloudflare is actually working with google to put the amp pages on publisher's domain. also from my understanding, publishers manually opt-in to use google amp cache.
(ps. i linked to one such page because i actually use a browser extension to load them in chrome for me. i like them lol.)
That's because AMP cache. You'll need to consider only the URL starting from /v/s/. In your example, it would be "www.xxxxxx.co.uk/life-style/health/950639/how-to-live-longer-nap-sleep-time/amp?amp_js_v=0.1"
Read this for more info: https://developers.google.com/amp/cache/overview
seems like
>The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project is an open source initiative that embodies the vision that publishers can create mobile optimized content once and have it load instantly everywhere.
https://developers.google.com/amp/cache/
>Load AMP pages quickly with Google AMP Cache
>The Google AMP Cache is a cache of validated AMP documents published to the web. It is available for anyone to use. Google products, including Google Search, serve valid AMP documents and their resources from the cache to provide a fast user experience across the mobile web.
AMP pages are cached in Google's servers. You can't just remove them from your own server and expect never to show up again in SERP. To properly remove AMP pages you need to ping Google's AMP cache server and notify the removal of each individual page.
Amp is a Google product, according to Google. They make a lot more than just their search engine, you know.
https://developers.google.com/amp/
But there is no conspiracy about "exact phrase" searches not working. It's pretty obvious if you just try using it. Last summer when I searched for:
"protesting spread COVID" -NBER
I was hoping to find any actual medical research on the subject instead of the mountain of articles citing the non-peer-reviewed working paper by NBER, and yet all I get is articles about the NBER paper that do not contain the phrase I quoted anywhere on the page (easily verified with a Ctrl+F search). So it's pretty obvious to anybody that the exact phrase search is broken. I've tested it with non-political subjects too, so it's not just their refusal to show results that disagree with Google's politics. It's just laziness to fix a known problem that has been mentioned countless times on their help forums
I'd much rather see "no result found" than have my time wasted with FALSE results. It's not much better than Amazon's pathetic search function at this point.
That's a link for a page enhanced with a Google service called AMP: Accelerated Mobile Pages. This is a framework provided by Google to greatly enhance the performance delivery of web content, and content is often cached directly on the google servers. Hence the reason you're seeing it preceded by Google's domain.
AMP has, of course, proved controversial.
It's the Google Amp version of the site. Amp is this Google product/service sites can use to make fast mobile optimized versions of webpages. Alot of the major sites are publishing their content through Amp now and the Amp pages usually don't have all the paywall crap.
The link you provided is an example of Google AMP: https://developers.google.com/amp
It's basically a service run by Google that other sites can use to have all their data passed through so Google can compress it in to a more consolidated files and cache the results. The benefit to Google is that they can then track your activity better on other sites; which is also a source of criticism of the service.
https://developers.google.com/amp
basically Google rewrites your website on the fly to be more mobile-friendly
but this gives Google a whole lot of power over what you see, they could cut stuff from the website and you would never know
There's a FireFox plugin to counter AMP pages