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> The ones on their mobile devices who click AMP links by and large seem to love them.

Really? The main comment I've heard about it (when people mention it at all) is that it messes up the URL. I doubt most people notice anything changed.




You are probably overestimating how much people look at the URL outside of tech circles. As long as the page loads fast, I doubt many people particularly care about the URL bar.


How do you share the page with someone then?


You copy and paste the nerd character soup at the top of the Google firechrome


When you share a page it shares the canonical URL. When you open it in an external browser it opens the canonical URL.


I frequently see Reddit posts with an AMP URL that then goes on to render terribly in a full screen browser.


Relative links on reddit (e.g. to other posts, or subreddits) on their AMP pages are also completely broken.

Such a frustrating experience for users.


> When you share a page it shares the canonical URL.

By what mechanism? Because copying the URL from the bar does not copy the correct URL, it copies the AMP url.


https://www.ampproject.org/latest/blog/improving-urls-for-am...

This was fixed at the beginning of this year. Now what canonical URL the publisher uses is up to them.

Another comment said that relative links are all messed up o n the Reddit AMP version. That's Reddit doing it wrong.


Probably by the "Share" button in your browser, which is yet another perversion that the mobile ecosystem introduced.


Mobile Chrome do that when you copy the URL.


I’m always amazed at how fast to load AMP pages are. I for one see the benefits.


I personally love how fast and responsive the experience is. I would be fine if the sites were also that fast and responsive, but since they're not always, I'm glad Google stepped in and ensured they would be for me.




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