I never said it was all it does. It's the reason AMP exists, and the reason certain users like it. The "hijacks content" part is by itself unobjectionable, esp

I never said it was all it does. It's the reason AMP exists, and the reason certain users like it. The "hijacks content" part is by itself unobjectionable, especially with this latest update we're discussing which fixes the URL bar issue. The other server will serve a checksum so Google can't tamper with the contents. That makes it just a free CDN. Is the problem that you do not want Google to see your content at all? You'll need to use robots.txt to ban Googlebot. You can't simultaneously want to appear in Google search results and also not let Google see your website. The required JavaScript is legitimately frustrating, I know. The AMP project has an article about why they did it that way: https://medium.com/@cramforce/why-amp-html-does-not-take-full-advantage-of-the-preload-scanner-7e7f788aa94e https://medium.com/@cramforce/why-amp-html-does-not-take-ful... Specifically, it's to prioritize resource loads. I personally don't think their explanation is very convincing. But whatever, maybe it's easier for them to do it this way or something. I don't think Google is doing it to push changes which are profitable for them, though. I legitimately believe they're doing it to make the pages load faster and otherwise be better for the users. I don't even understand how it could be profitable in any other way.