Disable javascript Magento_Catalog/js/product/view/provider

Question

On the product page I have this code:

"Magento_Catalog/js/product/view/provider": {//etc

which contains a serialized array with product data, including price.

The problem is that Google reads this array and extracts the price, previewing it in the serp. In the rest of the page the price appears only to logged in users.

Can I disable this block or at least remove the price? Is this a necessary block to the page? The block is \Magento\Catalog\Block\Ui\ProductViewCounter

Answer 1

That data is important for Magento, but there is a way to remove price data from it.

1. Create a module Vendor_Module
2. Add all relevant files to make a basic module (registration.php, and etc/module.xml).
3. Create a etc/di.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:ObjectManager/etc/config.xsd">
    <type name="Magento\Catalog\Block\Ui\ProductViewCounter">
        <plugin name="Vendor_Module::ProductViewCounter" type="Vendor\Module\Plugin\Block\Ui\ProductViewCounter" />
    </type>
</config>

4. Create the plugin file Plugin/Block/Ui/ProductViewCounter.php

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Vendor\Module\Plugin\Block\Ui;

use Magento\Catalog\Block\Ui\ProductViewCounter as BaseProductViewCounter;
use Magento\Customer\Model\Session;
use Magento\Framework\Serialize\SerializerInterface;

class ProductViewCounter
{

    /**
     * @param Session $customerSession
     * @param SerializerInterface $serializer
     */
    public function __construct(
        private readonly Session $customerSession,
        private readonly SerializerInterface $serializer
    ) {
    }

    /**
     * @param BaseProductViewCounter $subject
     * @param string $result
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function afterGetCurrentProductData(BaseProductViewCounter $subject, string $result): string
    {
        // If customer is logged in, return the original result
        if ($this->customerSession->isLoggedIn()) {
            return $result;
        }

        $data = $this->serializer->unserialize($result);

        // If the items array is empty, return the original result
        if (empty($data['items'])) {
            return $result;
        }

        $productId = array_key_first($data['items']);

        // Remove the price_info from the serialized data
        unset($data['items'][$productId]['price_info']);

        return $this->serializer->serialize($data);
    }
}

In the above implementation we are removing the price_info block from the product data when customer is not logged in.

I have tested the above code and it works fine on Magento 2.4.6-p1