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Re: You can't disable Google AMP

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Post by lcw »

I'm glad they fixed this. It has been driving me insane.

I also wonder in general when they have canonical links set up what the statistics will look like on interactions with them. I understand what AMP is trying to achieve with site performances, and its great for some mediums specifically the simple reading of news, but it's dummying down the internet. Personally I hope that people get bored of the AMP experience and click to the more feature rich website experience(that obviously don't have terrible site performance).

Re: You can't disable Google AMP

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Post by Lazare »

As a user, I've found AMP results to be invariable an excellent user experience on mobile. I will always click an AMP link over a non-AMP link, when on mobile, because I know the AMP link will load quickly and be usable, and the odds are good the non-AMP link will not.

Apparently this is a minority view around here. :)

Re: You can't disable Google AMP

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Post by plorkyeran »

AMP was the thing that finally got me to stop using Google on my phone. Quite the accomplishment.

Perhaps AMP would improve my browsing experience if it actually worked, but I've only ever gotten a blank page when clicking on an AMP link.

Re: You can't disable Google AMP

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Post by vmarsy »

lovich wrote: post #10

Like the other commenters here, I really disliked amp for a variety of reason such as the bar on top and the inability to easily link the main version of the page. However, I'be come to feel that we've brought this on ourselves as Web developers by making every website incredibly bloated and only possible to use on high speed connections. I've spent the past month in thailand on a much slower connection and the only…

> the only sites I can reliably use currently are text sites like hacker news and amp pages. I can have a site like reddit even take 30-40 seconds to load.

What about reddit's AMP pages [1]?

[1] https://redditblog.com/2016/09/20/amp-and-reactredux/

Re: You can't disable Google AMP

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Post by Fricken »

Lazare wrote: post #12

As a user, I've found AMP results to be invariable an excellent user experience on mobile. I will always click an AMP link over a non-AMP link, when on mobile, because I know the AMP link will load quickly and be usable, and the odds are good the non-AMP link will not. Apparently this is a minority view around here. :)

Amp loads fast. News pages are so bogged down with extraneous bullshit these days it feels like internet speeds are moving backwards. Also, I'm getting access to the Financial Times through Amp, I've never been able to read it before.

Re: You can't disable Google AMP

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Post by flukus »

lovich wrote: post #10

Like the other commenters here, I really disliked amp for a variety of reason such as the bar on top and the inability to easily link the main version of the page. However, I'be come to feel that we've brought this on ourselves as Web developers by making every website incredibly bloated and only possible to use on high speed connections. I've spent the past month in thailand on a much slower connection and the only…

> I can have a site like reddit even take 30-40 seconds to load and more complicated sites like cnn will load part of the page and then silently fail on me.

Isn't reddit pretty simple text? Are you running RES at all?

Re: You can't disable Google AMP

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Post by jessriedel »

enzanki_ars wrote: post #9
colinbartlett wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great idea. To which search engine did you switch?

I use DuckDuckGo [1] instead of Google. The search results are nearly identical and the bangs [2] are very handy. [1]: https://duckduckgo.com/ [2]: https://duckduckgo.com/bang

For what it's worth, you can get this same functionality in desktop chrome in slightly fewer keystrokes using the custom search engines. Doesn't work on mobile, or at a public machine though.

Re: You can't disable Google AMP

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Post by sheeshkebab »

The top bar in google AMP results is super annoying (and hidden url's are cherry on that, making it difficult to share url's correctly).

That said rendering speed of AMP is quite noticeably faster than navigating to the actual site - or at least for more popular tech oriented news type sites.

Hard to say what's better - but I say to hell with AMP and just let us see raw websites.

Re: You can't disable Google AMP

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Post by biot »

The place to complain about AMP isn't Google... it's the sites that AMP-enable their content. If enough people tell publishers "I've stopped reading your site because of AMP" maybe they'll take notice.

Re: You can't disable Google AMP

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Post by mdasen »

Lazare wrote: post #12

As a user, I've found AMP results to be invariable an excellent user experience on mobile. I will always click an AMP link over a non-AMP link, when on mobile, because I know the AMP link will load quickly and be usable, and the odds are good the non-AMP link will not. Apparently this is a minority view around here. :)

It totally is a great experience. The page loads fast without too much crap.

But it's also sad that something not-quite-open is taking over an important part of the web. AMP is this Google-wrapped version of a part of the web that tries to keep you in Google's land rather than allowing you to browse the site you visited.

As a user, I like clicking on AMP links. But in a certain way, it's like eating candy. I know it's not good for the web and openness over the long term. But in the short term, it's just so nice.

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