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I love AMP sites that do it the right way, like Politico. Keeps the real domain, loads fast, clean interface. I wish more sites were like this. I think the firs

• tyingq 7y ago
  It's nicer than the original AMP setup, but still awful for publishers. For any user that navigates to your AMP page from a Google search... The publisher gives up the most important piece of screen real estate, and Google highjacks left/right swipes to navigate to your competitors. And, they hijack the back button post swipe too...back equals "back to Google"...not back to the page I swiped from. It is pretty much like early AOL. A semi walled garden. It offers some speed benefit for users, but way more benefit to Google.
  • bduerst 7y ago
    What's the most important piece of screen real estate that they're giving up?
    • tyingq 7y ago
      The top. Top left is red hot on any heatmap that tracks eyeball movement. Google controls what goes there.
• buboard 7y ago
  is this served from politico's servers and how is it different from a stripped down version of their site?
  • tyingq 7y ago
    It's not. It's using "Signed Exchanges", which Chrome supports, but most other browsers do not. It's just AMP with some crypto that lets Google masquerade as your domain.
    • buboard 7y ago
      oh wow, Signed Exchanges are worse than AMP! "make sure you are visiting mybanksite.com" is no longer safe.
      • echeese 7y ago
        How is it no longer safe?
        • buboard 7y ago
          Phishing
          • echeese 7y ago
            They can't alter the content - that's where the 'signed' part comes in. Any forms there would still go to the original source.
      • JohnFen 7y ago
        I don't think there's a real phishing risk with them, but I object to Signed Exchanges because they are actively making the browser lie to me about the URL being used.
        • Ajedi32 7y ago
          The URL the browser shows is the one which was cryptographically verified to be correct. I don't see how you can call that a "lie". If I'm offline and I open an offline cached page in my browser, would you call it a lie if the browser displays the URL I originally downloaded that page from in the URL bar instead of saying it came from "your hard drive"?
• JohnFen 7y ago
  > I think the first version of AMP where the URL was always "google.com/amp/politico/sdgffsdf" was awful But that has the advantage of making it easier to find the real page rather than the AMP page.
• pstch 7y ago
  The page you linked takes 8s to display on my browser, even on subsequent reloads, just because I don't allow third-party scripts. It also has no displayed images, for the same reason. I really don't wish more sites were like this.