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No-one has mentioned the to me most obvious answer: if your employer wants to/is using AMP, heavily lobby against it. Convince other developers. Get your manage
by the_duke 7y ago
No-one has mentioned the to me most obvious answer: if your employer wants to/is using AMP, heavily lobby against it. Convince other developers. Get your manager on your side. Write the CEO.
Do so with good arguments why it's a bad move, not with "omg Google is evil".
Do the same thing as a user: if you are using a site that has AMP deployed, write them. Them them why it's bad for them and for their users, and how this pushes you to other alternatives.
- lonelappde 7y agoThat requires having a reason to oppose AMP beyond generalized dislike of Google.
- donohoe 7y agoStart with this http://ampletter.org/ http://ampletter.org/
- lern_too_spel 7y agoThe very first reason it gives is nonsense. Your boss will probably laugh at you if not fire you. "AMP keeps users within Google’s domain and diverts traffic away from other websites for the benefit of Google." No, it keeps users within the link aggregator's domain, whether that is Google, Bing, Baidu, or a link aggregator made by a third party. The publisher is OK with this because it makes loading from all of those link aggregators instant, just like when they publish for Apple News; but in this case, they can publish once and support multiple aggregators.
- donohoe 7y agoAs someone who works for publishers, no, we were not happy about this at all and it did pull readers from our sites.
- lern_too_spel 7y ago> no, we were not happy about this Compared to Apple News? It serves the same purpose but gives more control to publishers.