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by hcurtiss 3201 days ago
Why is there always so much hate for amp on HN? I'm on a PC and I vastly prefer these pages to the huge/bloated default pages offered by so many publishers. Using the TC page linked in the original post as an example, if I turn on Ghostery it blocks 22 trackers! https://imgur.com/a/iTnlT

On the Amp page, it only catches one: https://imgur.com/a/P7mww
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SXX 3201 days ago
It's not all about privacy and trackers, but about search monopoly that well might abuse it's power to become content provider monopoly as well using the fact they have fastest CDN.

Though it's less of a problem with self-hosted AMP, but still a problem because it's still tech from company that might choose to improve web and can very well do it with Chrome market share, but instead decide to replace it with own thing.

I have good reasons to not trust Google because over years they provided worse experience for Firefox on their own services and it's still annoyingly true on Android.

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tanilama 3201 days ago
It is all about ideology. People hate google for doing anything because it is too big.
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