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Re:States bring action against Google under federal and stat... by tgsovlerkhgsel on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:49PM (#25449850)
> they were just incompatible with things that commonly made sites load slower.

I always thought that was the entire point.

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Re:States bring action against Google under federal and stat... by manigandham on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:51PM (#25450927)
The things that make sites slower are ads. And 90%+ of those are served by Google which runs the biggest adserver on the internet.

AMP is Google solving for performance from itself, and costing a lot of time and effort for everyone else to deal with.

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Re:States bring action against Google under federal and stat... by MrStonedOne on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @07:13PM (#25450610)
The primary upsell I always heard on here, and I think google's pages on it, was that it could be prefetched without exposing the user's info to the publisher if the user didn't click on it (because it's hosted on google's servers), and the prefetch was what made it faster, as well as being hosted on a cached cdn network.
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