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Thank you very much. I saved your comment and going to refer to it from time to time. I always said that AMP is solving a real problem. I just not entirely hap
by akras14 9y ago
Thank you very much. I saved your comment and going to refer to it from time to time.
I always said that AMP is solving a real problem. I just not entirely happy with how they went about solving it.
My main criticism of AMP is that I see it as a missed opportunity to make the web(all of it) better.
If for example instead of creating AMP Google used a well know , open source tool like Lighthouse to benchmark websites and only let sites with certain score into their carousel, I bet that most of news web site would get rid of all but most necessary JavaScript really fast.
Instead they introduced a new format, so now publishers have to maintain 2 versions of the site. It also locks users into Google "platform", not an evil thing per say, but definitely a self serving aspect, for which they get criticized.
It's a complex issue. To give credit where it's due, the fact that AMP and team were able to help people like you speaks volumes in their favor. I just wished that we could work towards fixing the original web, instead of trying to invent a new one.