Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali...
by kuschku on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @06:23AM
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You can have AMP without Google-injected UI, but only if you rename it, or don’t allow Google to index your page at all.
If Google indexes a page with AMP, and returns is at as a search result, it NEVER actually returns the AMP page, but always the modified one from the cache.
The web is supposed to be a platform, and AMP is supposed to be an open standard ... but the end result of this is that Google Search will modify your web application with their own navigation UI?
Yikes. I mean, injecting your stuff into other people's web pages is bad when a cable provider uses it for ads. Is it not bad for the web platform if it's google that does it?
Or is it linked to your usage of their CDN, and not something that necessarily comes with being an AMP site? (Ie, google will cache it for you, but first you have to agree to let them inject your page). That wouldn't be so bad, because it'd mean that you could play in the AMP playground without agreeing to Google having their fingers in your users' navigation.
But if AMP means "Google-injected UI" right now, then that just seems bad.