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by bigp3t3 1514 days ago
Nobody complained about Google's RSS monopolizing because the search engine doesn't provide RSS URLs in the top results, unlike they do for AMP links, at least nearly as frequently. RSS is also far from a similar case study to AMP in how web content is delivered. RSS optional, AMP was a lazy web dev's means to presenting pages over mobile without having to think about layout. At least that's what if felt like to me as a web user.
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And how is showing AMP in top results monopolizing the web? Bing does the same thing. A social news aggregator could do the same thing if it thinks people could read the article and go back to scrolling the feed faster.

AMP loads instantly. There is nothing lazy about supporting it. Just like RSS, it requires extra work for the publisher to get the user the instant-loading behavior they desire.