AMP somehow doesn't work right on my smartphone.
When I go to news.google.com an click of any of the AMP links on the front page, I always get thrown back to news.google.com when I scroll on the AMP page.
I decided to disable AMP on my site
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#12Funny thing is - I, as a reader, love AMP sites. If a website offers AMP, I will prefer it from normal thing.
It has less ads, less bloat, better signal/noise ratio, and the AMP websites look pleasant to eye. So I prefer them even on desktop, ironically.
I still have the issues with Google's AMP caching. But AMP itself is great.
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#13The author has some very valid points against AMP from a technical standpoint, but for me there is a single reason that is sufficient: the Web is, and should stay, free and open . Indeed, I'm having really hard time trying to understand how people can be fine with AMP while fighting for the net neutrality and so on.
Completely agree, while technically AMP is suitable but it creates a walled garden by using Google - who actually boost page rankings if you use it, so they have publishers by the balls "forcing" them to use AMP to get higher in their rankings.
AMP does not seem like a walled garden tech. any crawler can find and use the AMP version of a page through this tag:
" rel="nofollow">https://www.example.com/url/to/amp/document.html">
Thus all google is doing is rewarding sites that have implemented this and as a result load fast, no? imo, its drastically different to Instant Articles because you can never ever find the Instant Articles version of a web page. its private and only fb knows it.
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#14The fact that website content is stored on Google servers and being served from Google is just disgusting.
Not all of it is. Most i've seen recently have a /amp/ subdir on the correct domain, not Google.
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#15The fact that website content is stored on Google servers and being served from Google is just disgusting.
Is hosting your site on Google Cloud Platform equally disgusting?
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#16> On iPhone, AMP seems to override the default browser scrolling. As a result scrolling of AMP pages feels off.
Good news! iOS 11 fixes this. Safari actually has an inconsistent scrolling speed compared to the rest of the OS. iOS 11 makes all Safari pages scroll at the same speed as AMP sites (-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch)
Also important distinction for people to remember - AMP is two products:
- CDN with preloading pages in Google Search results
- Framework/guidelines for building performant results
The 'morals' and impacts to the 'free and open web' of these two are completely different.
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#17AMP has all the charisma of Silverlight. When I see it, I am impelled away from it, and toward anything closer to normal, no matter how ugly or slow.
Re: I decided to disable AMP on my site
#18Funny thing is - I, as a reader, love AMP sites. If a website offers AMP, I will prefer it from normal thing. It has less ads, less bloat, better signal/noise ratio, and the AMP websites look pleasant to eye. So I prefer them even on desktop, ironically. I still have the issues with Google's AMP caching. But AMP itself is great .
You can use Firefox and have 0 ads with uBlock Origin.
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Re: I decided to disable AMP on my site
#20Funny thing is - I, as a reader, love AMP sites. If a website offers AMP, I will prefer it from normal thing. It has less ads, less bloat, better signal/noise ratio, and the AMP websites look pleasant to eye. So I prefer them even on desktop, ironically. I still have the issues with Google's AMP caching. But AMP itself is great .
You can use Firefox and have 0 ads with uBlock Origin.
AMP sites still look better.
I am using this simple extension that shows me when a website has AMP version and I switch to it (not sure if there is an extension that does this automatically). Doesn't work 100% though
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/amplifier-ampcanon...
edit:
oh, this one seems to do it automatically. Nice
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/%E2%9A%A1%EF%B8%8F...