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posted by on Thursday May 25 2017, @05:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-more-you-tighten-your-grip... dept.

There's been a good deal of ongoing discussion about Google AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages.

Quite a few high-profile web developers have this year weighted in with criticism and some, following a Google conference dedicated to AMP, have cautioned users about diving in with both feet.

These, in my view, don't go far enough in stating the problem and I feel this needs to be said very clearly: Google's AMP is bad – bad in a potentially web-destroying way. Google AMP is bad news for how the web is built, it's bad news for publishers of credible online content, and it's bad news for consumers of that content. Google AMP is only good for one party: Google. Google, and possibly, purveyors of fake news.

[...] What it is, is a way for Google to obfuscate your website, usurp your content and remove any lingering notions of personal credibility from the web.

If that appeals to you, here's what you need to do. First, get rid of all your HTML and render your content in a subset of HTML that Google has approved along with a few tags it invented. Because what do those pesky standards boards know? Trust Google, it knows what it's doing. And if you don't, consider yourself not part of the future of search results.

Why a subset of HTML you ask? Well, mostly because web developers suck at their jobs and have loaded the web with a ton of JavaScript no one wants. Can't fault Google for wanting to change that. That part I can support. The less JavaScript the better.

So far AMP actually sounds appealing. Except that, hilariously, to create an AMP page you have to load a, wait for it, yes a JavaScript file from Google. Pinboard founder Maciej Cegłowski already recreated the Google AMP demo page without the Google AMP JavaScript and, unsurprisingly, it's faster than Google's version.

-- submitted from IRC


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  • (Score: 0, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 25 2017, @07:18AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 25 2017, @07:18AM (#515336)

    The obvious rebuttal, is that there are only two Soylentils left, Runaway and aristarchus, locked in an infinite cycle of contrapunctal ideological reparte- No, that is just silly. Where is jmorris when we need him?

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  • (Score: 2) by kazzie on Thursday May 25 2017, @08:13AM (1 child)

    by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 25 2017, @08:13AM (#515349)

    The obvious rebuttal, is that there are only two Soylentils left, Runaway and aristarchus

    Which one are you?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 26 2017, @03:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 26 2017, @03:42AM (#515817)

      jmorris? But he has publicly stated that he never posts AC, which of course is good enough for me, since I am jmorris. Or at least I claim to be. My, the quality of SoylentNews has fallen of late. Not even worth it to right-wing troll anymore.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by inertnet on Thursday May 25 2017, @09:11AM (1 child)

    by inertnet (4071) on Thursday May 25 2017, @09:11AM (#515362) Journal

    I thought he ran away and we're the only one left.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 25 2017, @04:29PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 25 2017, @04:29PM (#515536)

      Is that the Imperial (Royal) We? I ask, because you make it singular with "we're the only one left.)

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 25 2017, @09:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 25 2017, @09:57AM (#515372)

    What about khallow? Perhaps the Market has eliminated him.