Every Google result now looks like an ad

Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by dessant on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @06:50PM (#22113080)

I've actually removed that second question before I noticed your answer, because I knew you would then skip over the first one. Feel free to address the main point I was making in all my posts in this thread, whenever you feel ready.

> So if your metric is

Google being pinged obviously isn't my main metric, as you can see from all my posts in our discussion. My main concern is that publishers will be forced to use specific publishing mechanisms (AMP, Signed Exchanges) to appear at the top of Google Search results. That loss of control puts publishers in a vulnerable position, and hurts innovation across the web.

> Then yes, absolutely, because nothing changes!

Everything changes. Google's influence and control won't end at the moment the user navigates away to a top result on Google Search.

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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by joshuamorton on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @11:54PM (#22114751)

I updated the prior post, but to be a bit more concrete, what differentiates AMP signed exchanges from, say, HTTPS?

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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by jhasse on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @05:30PM (#22122771)

Google could serve an older version without the user knowing.

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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad by joshuamorton on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:11PM (#22123083)

The signed exchanges protocol requires that the content be signed with a key with a short expiry date (< 1 week), sites are free to make it shorter. In extreme cases, the providing site could sign with an expiry of < 1 day or even something like 1 hour.

And iiuc, sites are still free to revoke their certs. So this is actually probably more secure compared to something like https in that regard.

[0]: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/6cc3237b36c2f9ce7534...

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