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Re:The Problem with AMP by candiodari on Monday January 16, 2017 @10:05PM (#13414884)
Yeah but here it's functioning effectively as a better ad-blocker (one that doesn't screw up site layout). Looking at how AMP works, I can see why : you'd have to decide before you know who the user is what ads to show.

Wouldn't that effectively mean that in a search query followed by an AMP site visit only Google has the opportunity to show targeted ads ?

Re:The Problem with AMP by derefr on Monday January 16, 2017 @10:16PM (#13414941)
I imagine it's supposed to be similar to how Apple's iAd platform works for iOS apps. It's a bad shake for third-party ad networks, but it's great for user privacy, since third-party origin requests are no longer being made to anyone but the platform owner (who then anonymizes the impression metrics they give back to the ad creators, who just have to trust the platform-owner's stats.)
Re:The Problem with AMP by ec109685 on Monday January 16, 2017 @11:17PM (#13415166)
That's not true. There is space in amp for a variety of iframe'd ad providers.
Re:The Problem with AMP by cramforce on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @10:13AM (#13418159)
AMP supports many dozens of ad providers. 2 of them are owned by Google.