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I'm not telling you to trust them. I'm certainly not telling you to use AMP. I'm just saying, they've done a lot of work on this Web Packaging thing, and it's

I'm not telling you to trust them. I'm certainly not telling you to use AMP. I'm just saying, they've done a lot of work on this Web Packaging thing, and it's a pretty good replacement for AMP. You should check it out. It's hard to see why they'd do all of that work of replacing AMP if your theory is right and they just loooved stealing those URLs.

x0x0 9y ago
Because 1 - they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar 2 - the internet isn't quite as dumb as google hoped 3 - thank god for the EU & Margrethe Vestager. Maybe we can talk her into adding a zero. ps -- that status, as near as I can tell, of the amp url fix is vaporware. Deployed yet? Nope. So let's wait to get all triumphant until their supposed solution is deployed. https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/01/09/google-finally-fixing-urls-amp-pages/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/01/09/google-finally-fixi...
- lern_too_spel 9y ago
  It's not up to Google to deploy. It's up to the browser vendors to implement, and that won't happen with Apple dragging its feet on every web standard.
- madeofpalk 9y ago
  How so? The user experience they wanted to achieve (provide an Apple News and Facebook Instant Articles experience on the web) was not technically possible. They added the hacks and workarounds that is AMP + AMP Cache + News carousel prerendering to Google to create something competitive. Now they're working with the standards bodies to remove the need for the hacks they've developed. Web Packaging (for loading and verifying a bundled website - this is the preloading part) and iFrame Promotion (for 'promoting' an iFrame to the root browsing context - this is the 'clicking the search result and having the resulting page display instantly' part) is really cool and it'll be great to have this available to everyone without the downsides that Google's current solution has (URL fucking)
  - x0x0 9y ago
    Weird how the technical compromises they just had to make work out, well, wildly to their advantage. Better not piss off google or they break all links to your site!

x0x0 9y ago

Because 1 - they got caught with their hands in the cookie jar 2 - the internet isn't quite as dumb as google hoped 3 - thank god for the EU & Margrethe Vestager. Maybe we can talk her into adding a zero. ps -- that status, as near as I can tell, of the amp url fix is vaporware. Deployed yet? Nope. So let's wait to get all triumphant until their supposed solution is deployed. https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/01/09/google-finally-fixing-urls-amp-pages/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/01/09/google-finally-fixi...

lern_too_spel 9y ago
It's not up to Google to deploy. It's up to the browser vendors to implement, and that won't happen with Apple dragging its feet on every web standard.
madeofpalk 9y ago
How so? The user experience they wanted to achieve (provide an Apple News and Facebook Instant Articles experience on the web) was not technically possible. They added the hacks and workarounds that is AMP + AMP Cache + News carousel prerendering to Google to create something competitive. Now they're working with the standards bodies to remove the need for the hacks they've developed. Web Packaging (for loading and verifying a bundled website - this is the preloading part) and iFrame Promotion (for 'promoting' an iFrame to the root browsing context - this is the 'clicking the search result and having the resulting page display instantly' part) is really cool and it'll be great to have this available to everyone without the downsides that Google's current solution has (URL fucking)
- x0x0 9y ago
  Weird how the technical compromises they just had to make work out, well, wildly to their advantage. Better not piss off google or they break all links to your site!