Re:Dear Google, I'm Blocking You from My Website
by JohnFen on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:23AM
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> I presume the team had good intentions, particularly for end users.
I don't question the intentions of the team. I question the intentions of Google.
> for instance, they pushed forward a new web standard (packaging) to fix the address bar problem
Yes, which is a thing I object to even more than I object to AMP.
But, truthfully, here's my real problem with AMP: I genuinely hate AMP formatted pages, and they are increasingly being foisted on me. Every time I have to manually copy/edit/paste a URL to get the real page, I get a little bit angry, and I'm having to do that increasingly often. If there were some way I could opt out of getting AMP links, I wouldn't be quite so emotional about it.
There are a small handful of things about the web that make my suspect that I'll generally just stop using the web at some point, and AMP is one of those things.
I don't question the intentions of the team. I question the intentions of Google.
> for instance, they pushed forward a new web standard (packaging) to fix the address bar problem
Yes, which is a thing I object to even more than I object to AMP.
But, truthfully, here's my real problem with AMP: I genuinely hate AMP formatted pages, and they are increasingly being foisted on me. Every time I have to manually copy/edit/paste a URL to get the real page, I get a little bit angry, and I'm having to do that increasingly often. If there were some way I could opt out of getting AMP links, I wouldn't be quite so emotional about it.
There are a small handful of things about the web that make my suspect that I'll generally just stop using the web at some point, and AMP is one of those things.