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Amp-the-standard is not the same thing as amp-the-google-UX. I'd love for sites to adopt AMP, as a standard for web design which leads to very lean sites witho
by ninkendo 6y ago
Amp-the-standard is not the same thing as amp-the-google-UX.
I'd love for sites to adopt AMP, as a standard for web design which leads to very lean sites without content pop-in. That'd be awesome! Give me a little icon next to the search result that says "this site is AMP certified" so I know it'll be fast.
But what I don't love, is that Google uses AMP as a trojan horse to keep me inside the google search results as I browse the internet, by:
- Rehosting the amp sites on their CDN
- Pre-rendering sites I haven't clicked yet to make them load faster
- Putting the site in some pop-over div which makes me feel like I'm still in the google results (so I can pop right back quickly and spend more time on google!)
- Breaking the swipe gesture
- Breaking the URL bar
- Breaking my phone's auto-hide for the URL bar
- etc etc