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Re:Google Stories by lopis on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:19AM (#25384173)
It's a protocol pushed by one company that wants to bend the web to fit it's purposes. To do that, Google ranks AMP pages more highly. And that's anti competitive and breaks search.

One reason Google wants the whole web to be "standard" is so they can scrape all information more easily, show users rich content by stealing your website's traffic, and create an internet information silo.

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Re:Google Stories by pas on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:52PM (#25422336)
I hate this argument, but here it goes: Google is a private company. Do they have a duty to the open web?

A bit more constructively: Who are the stakeholders here in the "open web"?

> show users rich content by stealing your website's traffic

Agreed. AMP allows ads, so when the users open the site the original site can receive ad revenue. But the snippets Google shows on the search results page likely deprive the original sites from traffic.

However ... it's not like Wikipedia wasn't already "stealing facts".

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Re:Google Stories by rjmunro on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:27AM (#25384544)
Why is AMP worse than Facebook's "instant articles", or whatever it is that the Apple news app does?
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Re:Google Stories by OJFord on Friday December 11, 2020 @08:35AM (#25385513)
Prevalence. Not GP and I don't use Facebook, but for what it's worth I hate recieving Apple News links too. No it's no worse than receiving bit.ly links to articles, but that doesn't happen to me.
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