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People say AMP is disgusting, but I say that the alternative is even worse. Just go visit delfi.ee, postimees.ee, õhtuleht.ee and you'll see how damn bloated si

People say AMP is disgusting, but I say that the alternative is even worse. Just go visit delfi.ee, postimees.ee, õhtuleht.ee and you'll see how damn bloated sites become if there's no market pressure to leanness.

patentatt 8y ago
For any other uninformed readers of this comment: .ee is the internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of Estonia, operated by the Estonian Internet Foundation. (I had to look it up too)
acdha 8y ago
This is true but consider an alternate history where Google cared more about web performance than pushing sites to adopt their proprietary JavaScript toolkit: search rankings would simply incorporate page performance/size measured in real browsers and all of those sites would have a strong incentive to reduce page weight and they could load faster without needing 100KB of AMP JavaScript to successfully load before they start rendering.
- dcbadacd 8y ago
  I'd be glad if that alternate history were the case, but currently AMP seems to be the lesser evil. AMP doesn't make my laptop's fans spin up.
  - acdha 8y ago
    I use Firefox’s content blocking and haven’t had that happen in years except on new installs where I forgot to disable WebM.
    - dcbadacd 8y ago
      I don't use Firefox because my hardware is super weak and hardware acceleration is a must for most things for me - FF doesn't do that.