I was super annoyed when they first took away the links. "Pages are more dependably available now," is such a lazy excuse. Storing the cached content probably wasn't even that expensive for them, as it didn't retain anything beyond basic html and text. Their shitty AI-centric web search was likely the main reason for getting rid of it.

Throw it on the pile. https://killedbygoogle.com

Google sure does love killing things people love.

I definitely miss the cached pages. I found that I was using the feature very frequently. Maybe it's just the relative obscurity of some of my hobbies and interests, but a lot of the information online that shows up in search engines seems to come from old forums. Often times those old forums are no longer around or have migrated to new software (obliterating the old URLs and old posts as well).

...and everybody was shocked! Absolutely shocked.

google is just gonna slowly fade away like some bad early sci-fi teleporter schtick

At least they are using the internet archive, which is neat

What a disgrace. This clown show of a company kills things people love and pushes advertising no one wants.

Another piece of internet history now gone. Perhaps not deleted, but hidden beneath Goggle's own archives until they degrade away.

Google cache?