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Comment by amiga-workbench | Hacker News Reader

If by full experience do they mean locking my browser up with JavaScript?

A lot of these sites really deserve AMP, the normal viewing experience is awful.

The problem that AMP is solving is very real. The issue is that AMP is solving it in the worst way possible. Instead of using this as a ploy to force traffic to stay within Google's ecosystem, Google should encourage sites to just slim down their excessive pages.

It's real for some, but not an issue for others.

Google's ill-intent is evident from their continued lack of interest in providing a user-controllable setting to turn it on or off, despite strenuous multiple complaints going back to almost the inception of the technology.

That is publisher problem, as reader I don't care if traffic has to stay within Google's ecosystem.

You should. Google already has too much control, and they are already abusing it. Additionally, they are the ones encouraging sites to become what they are today.

If there is one thing that is reliant on JS it is AMP.

>If there is one thing that is reliant on JS it is AMP.

...? AMP literally remove JS scripts from the served page..

By replacing them with AMP-specific scripts that are required for the page to show.

Yes, but its lightweight enough to not have my browser stutter while scrolling, and continue scrolling for several seconds after I stop.

I cannot say the same for most news websites.

Some do, but it should nonetheless be easy for the reader to go back to the non-AMP version of they wish.

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