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I get that there are philosophical issues with AMP and respect and agree with many of those, but I don't understand how people claim with a straight face that i

by creato 6y ago

I get that there are philosophical issues with AMP and respect and agree with many of those, but I don't understand how people claim with a straight face that it's worse from an end user perspective. Even setting aside load speed, it fixes my top two pet peeves: - Content moving around for a few seconds after the page loads (and of course right when I go to click on something). - No auto-playing audio.

anonymoushn 6y ago
It's way worse. A prominent American news outlet's AMP pages have Google ads obscuring the text of the article. In the last week AMP added an additional click before you can get the actual URL of the article to be able to read the text. The additional click takes the form of a fake sharing menu in the browser. It's sort of understandable that they would want to add this given that Android's built-in sharing menu takes multiple seconds to load on Google's flagship phones, but the fake menu lacks "copy to clipboard" so it cannot be used to go to the actual article.