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Is showing full screen images on desktop an industry-wide best practice? How about the faux navigation bars meant to resemble browser chrome? This "Google was
by stefan_ 6y ago
Is showing full screen images on desktop an industry-wide best practice? How about the faux navigation bars meant to resemble browser chrome?
This "Google was just forcing publishers to fix their pages" meme desperately needs to die. Just consider all the extra standards crap they were pushing to introduce to perfect the deception. This was, as always, about owning the data.
- s17n 6y agoExcept... they didn't own the data? AMP was conceived because Google was worried about everything moving into Facebook's walled garden. That's what it was competing against. Google doesn't need to own the data because Google is the world's gateway to the open web. They don't care who owns the data as long as they can crawl it.