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When I was struck in a developing country in March-April during pandemic, I was glad for AMP to minimise data and save costs. I am saddend that hn does not recognise the different (poor) parts of the world need quick/bloat free websites.

Yes, ideally all webdevs would make the non-AMP page bloat free. But as you know many a world pages are horrible and load tons of trackers.

Why is there is clear hate - AMP can be used for good and bad.

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Because what Google is doing now is what they needed years ago: punish bloated sites based on real experiences. AMP was an attempt to block Facebook news and use search dominance to give them control over how publishers use the web.

If it had just been about performance they wouldn’t have needed so much extra work and they wouldn’t have ignored the performance and reliability drawbacks to putting so much JavaScript into the critical path for page loads. Those 5+ second AMP mobile page views were completely avoidable if your goal was performance rather than control.

uMatrix + uBlock Origin solve this much better than AMP does... with the advantage that it works for exactly the websites you want with exactly the resources you choose - no more, no less. uBlock even allows you to block images if they're larger than a certain size.

This. uMatrix is a godsend for people who want to control loading 3rd party assets. It usually requires some configuration for new sites but once configured my phone runs like a dream.

(ran, since firefox disabled the plugin on my phone)

Just a heads up (which I should have mentioned): The uMatrix repo has been archived some time ago.

Amp pages aren't websites, they are google content.

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