[IfOnlyYouKnew]

So the user sees your URL, you're getting the revenue from the ads that are shown, sharing will share your URL, your statistics work flawlessly.

In other words: if it behaves exactly as a page hosted on your site (just faster), why do you care?

I'm getting the impression that HN users care a whole lot about seeing the request in the nginx log they are tailing.

[gpvos]

Well, as a user, I care about not announcing loudly to Google every single step I take on the web.

[lern_too_spel]

Then why are you searching on Google? That's where you would see an AMP page served from a Google AMP cache. If you searched on Bing, you would get AMP pages served from a Bing AMP cache instead.

[bashinator]

In the past year, I've seen amp pages increasingly often linked from all sorts of places (reddit, FB, here, etc) besides Google's search results.

[lern_too_spel]

AMP pages hosted by the publisher, Google's AMP cache, Bing's AMP cache, or some other company's AMP cache? GGP was complaining about sending any information to Google. Only one of those options does so.

[gpvos]

I am obviously not.

[manigandham]

It's not always faster. There are plenty of performance and usability issues with AMP pages, not to mention all the extra development effort needing to maintain a different version of the site just for a few mobile browsers.

[modo_mario]

It's anticompetitive af.