How to disable redirects from Google Search results to Android apps (different issue from 2014)? This is no duplicate of the same titled questions from 2014: The list of recent "answers" of disgruntled users shows that this is a new problem that seems to have surfaced just recently. As the "answer" by @Greeble formulates it:


  When I searched Google for the webpage you're reading right now, and
  clicked on it, it took me to the Google Play store and asked me to
  download the stackexchange app. A different search result to a problem
  forum resulted in me being directed to download the Tapatalk app.
  Interestingly, clicking "open in new tab" prevents this annoying
  behavior.
  
  I have the same problem with the Dolphin browser, but it is more than
  just Wikipedia.


For me it is a Firefox latest version, while a stone-age Chrome browser does not have this problem.

My hunch is that it is actually Google's search results itself that are instrumented to link to their Play Store. Of course this cannot be checked on a desktop. I tried checking the page source with a Firefox extension, but this was all just javascript gibberish, hard to make sense of.

Is there any way to see the HTML on an Android similar to the developer functionality we have in desktop browsers?

Is there a way to get rid of this nonsense again?
It is suspected that this issue is related to Google's roll-out of the ability to install apps directly from search results.  The install links are supposed to be clearly marked, but that was not happening here.  At the moment, I believe this is fixed because Google results are showing separate Install links and I am not being redirected to any apps otherwise.

If it's still happening for you, there are a few half-solutions I've seen suggested:


Use a desktop view/user agent when searching Google (I.e., Menu &rarr; "Request desktop site" in Chrome)
Long press on the search result you want and open it in a new tab
Try a different browser and make sure you have the latest version.
Use a different search engine.