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I for one still like AMP pages, especially for sites like BBC/verge/arstechnica when browsing from mobile. Sorry I do not want to use all my precious data for y

I for one still like AMP pages, especially for sites like BBC/verge/arstechnica when browsing from mobile. Sorry I do not want to use all my precious data for your tracking+analytics. A typical cdn.ampproject(google hosted) page for bbc transfers about 500kB whereas the same bbc mobile page 900kB. I made an android app that requests and loads the CDN version of the current page if possible, based on https://gist.githubusercontent.com/adewale/125f0cb2cb46b6af916a2178064efcc8/raw/55038df2ef3f40834620c25d72c5651d187c326f/gistfile1.txt https://gist.githubusercontent.com/adewale/125f0cb2cb46b6af9...

akras14 9y ago
To each his own Edit: I guess a larger point, if Google would penalize for size of download instead of promoting AMP, I am sure sites like BBC would work hard to shrink their mobile download size.
- ksk 9y ago
  Google probably forward-thought the answer to the inevitable question "OK so you're telling me to reduce data transfer, how exactly do you want me to go about it?" by giving them a practical solution envisioning a win-win.
  - akras14 9y ago
    I actually don't doubt that people at Google had and continue to have good intentions. I still find the concept of AMP cache very troublesome, even if it was built with good intentions.
BoorishBears 9y ago
AMP would have been fine and so much less controversial with a simple change. Make the AMP icon (or some other element) lead to the AMP page and leave the normal link as the main search result. I hate AMP for completely practical reasons and have no issue with the ideology. It messes up my back button, the top bar is annoying, and most importantly I frequently have AMP pages fail to load with a white screen but had the normal page load. It's bad enough they're tricking me into visiting an AMP page (I've never intended to visit one), but then it's broken when the source page isn't.
- akras14 9y ago
  Good idea re 2 linked just like they do with a cached version

akras14 9y ago

To each his own Edit: I guess a larger point, if Google would penalize for size of download instead of promoting AMP, I am sure sites like BBC would work hard to shrink their mobile download size.

ksk 9y ago
Google probably forward-thought the answer to the inevitable question "OK so you're telling me to reduce data transfer, how exactly do you want me to go about it?" by giving them a practical solution envisioning a win-win.
- akras14 9y ago
  I actually don't doubt that people at Google had and continue to have good intentions. I still find the concept of AMP cache very troublesome, even if it was built with good intentions.

BoorishBears 9y ago

AMP would have been fine and so much less controversial with a simple change. Make the AMP icon (or some other element) lead to the AMP page and leave the normal link as the main search result. I hate AMP for completely practical reasons and have no issue with the ideology. It messes up my back button, the top bar is annoying, and most importantly I frequently have AMP pages fail to load with a white screen but had the normal page load. It's bad enough they're tricking me into visiting an AMP page (I've never intended to visit one), but then it's broken when the source page isn't.

akras14 9y ago
Good idea re 2 linked just like they do with a cached version