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> It's odd, because I haven't seen cache links on Google for years

For quite a time they stopped being a simple obvious link but where available in a drop-list of options for results for which a cashed copy was available.

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Not OP, and yes they "hid" it that way too. But I got the distinct sense that they removed it many years ago for certain websites (and more and more over the years I guess till now). They probably had some sort of flag on their analytics dashboard that website owners were given the privilege of changing so that people couldn't see the cache. Or for all we know it was some sort of "privacy" feature similar to "right to be forgotten".

For some sites. For years many search results didn't have a cache link in the drop down.

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