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The banner is needed to show the logical origin, given that the browser is still on Google.com and the article is shown in a iframe (to enable pre-rendering). Our native apps do not have this constraint and thus don't have the extra bar.

I can't give you a 100% reason for the X. I know multiple UI versions were tested and this did well.

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>to show the logical origin, given that the browser is still on Google.com and the article is shown in a iframe

What an amazing coincidence that this great new tech requires users to remain on google.com "for technical reasons".

If you have an alternative implementation strategy that enables pre-rendering and swiping while showing the source article origin I am all ears.

We can do it in our native apps, and we do.

I'm not familiar yet with the pre-rendering functionality so I can't comment except to ask - why are you making this contentious feature a requirement of using AMP? Why not allow publishers to opt out of the Google CDN + pre-rendering but still retain all the other benefits of AMP? This type of progressive enhancement would likely benefit more sites/users instead of an all-or-nothing approach.

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