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0 pointsoscrperez8y ago0 comments

This post is not meant to be a critical piece addressing the issues people have with AMP. That's not the goal here. The goal is to show the reason why we serve AMP content and the tech behind it.

There's a lot of conspiracy theories and misunderstanding about how AMP works in the community. AMP is by no means perfect, but its dangers are greatly exaggerated. If you don't trust Google's CDN, no one is forcing you to use Google. The benefits for non-tech users (e.g. my cousin in a 3rd world country with a 2G connection) are there and are clear.

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ocdtrekkie8y ago

Actually, Google is forcing you to use Google. Because your search rankings are dependent on Google getting to cache your content on Google's CDN. There is no situation where you can have your content only cached on someone else's CDN, and get all of the borderline illegal perks of Google favoring content stored on their servers.

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