Google AMP Is a Threat to the Open Web

Re:Google AMP Is a Threat to the Open Web by jayflux on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @04:00AM (#16428004)

My guess is that they are separate services which have always been that way and people can choose not to use them from the beginning. Amp is different in that it sits in front of a lot of websites which used to work directly, it’s apples and oranges.

iTunes didn’t take over any existing service or stop you from doing something you could before on the web

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Re:Google AMP Is a Threat to the Open Web by tyler_larson on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @04:16AM (#16428060)

So then it's akamai or limelight, then. Still not a threat.

Open standard, opt-in free cdn, independent compatible alternatives; this does not sound like a hostile takeover of your freedom.

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Re:Google AMP Is a Threat to the Open Web by vertex-four on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @06:39AM (#16428710)

The thing is... if you don’t use Google’s libraries and opt in to Google’s broken UI on mobile (you no longer actually go to the website, you’re kept on a weird container that contains the website), you get a drop in Google’s search results. There are no independent compatible alternatives which do not get that drop.

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