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As a web developer, the AMP story is notable. On many HN comment-threads people complained that AMP pages were in fact a lot slower than the alternatives they
by jrochkind1 5y ago
As a web developer, the AMP story is notable.
On many HN comment-threads people complained that AMP pages were in fact a lot slower than the alternatives they could do, and undesirable in other ways too, and AMP didn't seem to be achieving Google's stated goals for it. Either Google has ulterior malicious motives, people posited; or perhaps is just inertially stuck enforcing something that didn't work out how they intended.
Looks like the ulterior malicious motives were it.
Some people in HN threads are inclined to attribute all sorts of malicious conspiratorial motives to facebook/amazon/apple/google that others think are without evidence and likely have other explanations or at any rate who can say; these revelations probably make many of us a bit more inclined to suspect the conspiratorial malicious explanations with or without evidence. "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."
- kwertyoowiyop 5y agoI have some nontechnical friends who deeply distrusted and disliked Google. But I always believed Google’s “don’t be evil” line. I’ve learned a lesson.
- ConceptJunkie 5y agoI went through that same change of opinion several years ago. I now believe that Google is thoroughly evil.
- jrochkind1 5y agoFor instancce, here's an example of a HN thread from two years ago, on an article on "fighting back" against AMP (!), in which the top comment: > I worked on amp for a leading newspaper, and everyone who says that amp is about "making the web faster on mobile" is either very naive or doing marketing for google. —https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712733 I guess that user was... right? There's a reply disputing it, in part, although even the replyer seemed to accept that Google had ulterior motives, they just weren't willing to accept that Google would actually make the web slower and lie about it to achieve their ulterior motives... > Of course AMP has other motives than simply making the web faster for mobile, but it also does make the web faster for mobile