Google AMP is Not a Good Thing
▻https://danielmiessler.com/blog/google-amp-not-good-thing
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I’m not one to claim that original ideas always need to be perfectly preserved. Sometimes old ideas need to die out and be replaced by better ones. But this isn’t one of those.
The entire point of the Internet was to link to things.
You create something. We link to it. I create something. We link to it. That’s why they called it a web.
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But now we’re seeing these new models that are looking to break the system. Create central platforms and get everyone using it. Build a search engine and display people’s content without passing the user through to it.
It’s poisonous to the underlying concept of an open internet.
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They want to be a portal , in other words. A portal that you never leave. And this is coming from the most successful and profitable advertising company in the world.
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It’s an attack on the core principle of net, inter, web , and all the other metaphorical terms that we think of when we imagine the internet. They all mean connectedness. To each other.
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