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JoshMnem on Aug 8, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate

That might be a more believable explanation of why they did it if they weren't hijacking the content and hosting it on their own domain with left-right swipes that take users off of your site. Users don't actually visit your site, but they visit a restricted shell of it on google.com.

Vinnl on Aug 9, 2018 [–]

I'm not a fan of AMP either; just wanted to point out that it's unfair to say Google should have encouraged better practises when they did just that.

(Not that I'm a fan of Google/any single company having to be that warden, but I digress.)

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