| I completely agree with you. There are so many things that infuriate me about regular sites: - Images not having defined heights, leading to content jumping up as I'm reading - Ads loading and unloading, leading to the page jittering up and down erratically, making the content unreadable - Auto-playing videos: some start playing audio, some have the audio muted but still pause any music I have playing - Those ads that scroll up across the page (which wouldn't be a problem, but they scroll at a third of the speed that I drag them up at) - The "Read Full Story" buttons that animate the content downwards, freezing everything for a few seconds while the dumb animation plays - Web fonts taking an eternity to load, leaving me with no content for ten, fifteen, or more seconds - Web fonts loading unexpectedly and causing all the text to reflow, destroying my scroll position There are so many more things. But here's the thing: there are no ad-blockers for Chrome on Android. I can't turn this crap off. And overwhelmingly, I can't just pay someone money to make it stop. I would gladly hand over fifty bucks or more every month to read news in peace, but there's no centralized way to do that. AMP, at the very least, gets rid of these problems for me. Top bar and URL issues aside, clicking an AMP link is infinitely less frustrating than clicking a non-AMP link. |
AMP gives a great user experience on mobile, at least speed-wise. I haven't had any real complaints as a user. (Disclaimer: I work for a non-Google Alphabet company.)