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by hosay123 3845 days ago
Seems a fairly pointless tech to risk upsetting regulators over. What's the deal? "Use our <silly tech> or lose your ranking!"
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I'm surprised you're getting downvoted, because this seems like a valid criticism and was the first to pop into my head as well.

How is this not anti-competitive? Google is favoring the ranking of sites that use its own tech. According to the AMP docs on third-party components [0], only 5 ad networks are supported, most of them Google-owned.

[0] https://www.ampproject.org/docs/guides/third_party_component...

>AMP supports loading the bootstrap iframe that is used to load ads from a custom domain such as your own domain.

according to https://www.ampproject.org/docs/reference/amp-ad.html