Re:Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everyt...
by SquareWheel on Monday January 14, 2019 @09:16AM
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>Calling the phone home feature a required library is part of the malintent from Google.
It is code required for the WebComponents to function. It's also charged with optimizations such as sandboxing of iframes, making requests synchronous, and calculating layout to reduce paints.
Clearly it's not "phoning home". The script provides clear actions, as laid out on the amp project website.
>You don’t need that much time to load all the assets
On American broadband, perhaps. Other countries do not have the same infrastructure.
>that timeout is there only to punish people who block the AMP resources.
It is code required for the WebComponents to function. It's also charged with optimizations such as sandboxing of iframes, making requests synchronous, and calculating layout to reduce paints.
Clearly it's not "phoning home". The script provides clear actions, as laid out on the amp project website.
>You don’t need that much time to load all the assets
On American broadband, perhaps. Other countries do not have the same infrastructure.
>that timeout is there only to punish people who block the AMP resources.
Citation, not speculation, needed.