from Hacker News

Google tried to fix the web – by taking it over (AMP)

by throwaway2056 on 5/8/23, 12:39 PM with 7 comments

• by bryan_w on 5/8/23, 3:44 PM

  The problem was that some (news) sites were/are designed by myspace profile artists. Elements jump around the screen 15 seconds after the content loaded.

  How many display ads do we want to show on a page? Yes.

• by porkbeer on 5/8/23, 5:00 PM

  AMP was an attempt to link hijack the whole net, funnelling everyone through a demostarably worse google implementation. Dystopian is to soft a word.

• by Alifatisk on 5/8/23, 12:44 PM

  AMP was a cool piece of technology that was actually faster, they (Google) just had to infect it with bad intentions.

• by tanepiper on 5/9/23, 9:02 AM

  IMHO Matle Ubl will in the future be known as 'The Web Thomas Midgley Jr" for the damage done with AMP - and his relentless push to make it a thing.

  Now he's left Google, and they are abandoning it - that's another decade of web content that will just die without the chance to be archived.