amp is so annoying. Just link to the sites no need to track (can't they just do it with js) and then the number of people who then post them to Reddit or Facebook because they copy the results link the whole thing is infuriating.

That's a great initiative, though we need a solution that does not load AMP pages from Google before redirecting to the real site.

Changing Google's SERP inline I guess?

Reddit and Facebook are relatively well indexed on DuckDuckGo. Do yourself a favor and change your default search engine (just use !g when you need it).

They're saying that other people link to AMP on social media. That doesn't help their issue.

I was forever frustrated with my iPhone and safari when I would search something and a reddit link would come up with the result I wanted to see. Click it and would get the amp link open and at the bottom of the screen I would get a pop asking me to download the reddit app but it is impossible to close it without actually going to the reddit site which is what I want in the first place. The end result after being frustrated for long enough, I finally went into settings and set safari search to use Duckduckgo. I hope amp dies.

Wait, amp does that, I thought Reddit itself was the culprit!

Reddit is the culprit, amp pages don't inherently have such high level logic as this built into them. Reddit chose to make their amp pages behave this way.

I like AMP. It's at least 10 times faster than most news sites.

It's still useful for bypassing paywalls. I don't care if media orgs like nytimes use it, I care when the average joe blog or website uses it and it becomes annoying.

This doesn't make any sense. If anything, AMP would be something Google would use to try to prove they are not being anticompetitive. Instead of making publishers integrate directly with them like Apple News and Facebook Instant Articles, they ask publishers to publish in a format that can also be consumed by their competitors (and what's more, is actually consumed by their competitors).