I don't see the share links, but I have noticed on Google News articles with the thumbnail on the left side, clicking the thumbnail opens the original source. This doesn't seem to work (and I can't find a workaround) for the headline stories at the top though.
Share is on the initial page before you read the article. When you tap, there's a popup that has the source in green, making it look like a link, but it's not one - it's just green text. (They've disabled the long tapping context menu btw)
There's a share on google+, facebook, and twitter. facebook and google+ is a "card" without the source URL ... only the twitter share exposes a url (a shortened one).
This doesn't sound like a big intrusive ui thing. They already have an over-sensitive "swipe left" and "swipe right" so you can read another mystery story. When you swipe back because the "send me to mystery story" isn't a feature anyone asked for, amp scrolls to the top ... losing your place.
So now you have to make sure your down and up swipes are directionally perfect otherwise you go to some other story.
Mobile ad tech on news sites is the climax of insanity, but google long ago went into the deep end of the designer dictatorship - lobbing off useful features to create fragile, unpredictable, inconsistent, error-prone interfaces with, miraculously some of the core functionality removed and really useless things triggered with no way to disable them (a poorly connected aux cable triggering google now is a personal favorite).
For me, that successfully redirects to the non-AMP version on desktop. Though of course it's confusing to not be able to share the original page url on Facebook / Twitter / etc.
Update 1: Actually it didn't work. Safari threw an SSL related error and redirected to the Mac Rumors homepage. Not sure if it's a quirk of that link yet.
Update 2: It breaks in Chrome on OS X too:
> Your connection is not private
> Attackers might be trying to steal your information from www.macrumors.com (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID
I do not encounter this error visiting the original page [1] directly in either browser on OS X.
Update 3: The SSL issue may be Mac Rumors specific. A sample article from TechCrunch [2] redirects fine for me.
I call these "I'm so great" interfaces. When the creator thinks their thingy is so awesome that all the users will drop any other way of doing things and so they are free to generously cannibalize and dismember everything.
Google had another 'im-so-great' interface with hangouts a while back - trying to deprecate the separation of carrier sms, carrier mms, voip sms, and hangouts messages and combine them in some way where you don't know where things are coming from or where they are going ... so things hit carrier sms sometimes ... thus not being combined on all devices as before.
They took a working thing and made it broken in the name of making it work in the way they broke it.
I call things that make goals they set out to achieve less achievable a "car without wheels". The idea is that they are asking you to swap your wheeled vehicle for one without wheels that will just sit there on blocks.
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another car without wheels, mobile reddit.
They've removed the "share a link" feature. On wikipedia reddit is described as "a social media, social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website".
They've removed the first 3 of those 5 goals in their mobile interface.
This is distinct from a 'no you can't' interface such as the soundcloud app and mobile site where you can't delete tracks on your profile. If you only have a phone (many people do), you'd have to "view as desktop" to delete and even then, it barely works...
I'm sure it's a single web request and a single menu item ... this isn't a huge development effort - they already have a hamburger menu for your tracks ... it could just be tacked on there. Really easy ...
I should go off and make a list of these mobile design anti-patterns.
