Yes, it’s one thing to promote a cleaner and faster web though better design and implementation. It’s another thing for Google to use its effectively monopoly power to enforce that. As the FA says, Google didn’t invent the web or create its content - what gives them the moral right to take it over?
I think the collective web will eventually fix the problems without Google.
The root of the AMP issue is placement in Google’s search engine. Personally, I use DDG, and would be willing to pay a sizable subscription fee to keep it from being more like Google or from being acquired. But, most people probably would not - they are used to the web being “free”.
This is just another “embrace, extend, extinguish” effort, like the ones we have seen in the past. These attacks are transparently self-serving and should be “routed around”. It will require commitment to do so!
> Yes, it’s one thing to promote a cleaner and faster web though better design and implementation. It’s another thing for Google to use its effectively monopoly power to enforce that.
AMP is more than just cleaner and faster - it gives Google control. They could discriminate on cleaner and faster without it, but they purposefully don't mention that, since it would undercut the push for AMP.
I think the collective web will eventually fix the problems without Google.
The root of the AMP issue is placement in Google’s search engine. Personally, I use DDG, and would be willing to pay a sizable subscription fee to keep it from being more like Google or from being acquired. But, most people probably would not - they are used to the web being “free”.
This is just another “embrace, extend, extinguish” effort, like the ones we have seen in the past. These attacks are transparently self-serving and should be “routed around”. It will require commitment to do so!