@joshtpm Your Google Serf post was great. The latest front on the serfdom fight is AMP, which is far more overt. They're winning.
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AMP is also textbook anti-competitive practices. Google to publishers: use AMP (tech we control) or don't show up in the search carousel.
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Google controls which web components an AMP user is allowed to use, effectively hijacking the standards process for this HTML dialect.
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This affects me as a person who builds tech for the web (AMP users can't use anything I build; I'm not Google), but also publishers:
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Google also controls the web components that allow ads to appear at all in AMP content.
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Ultimately, this means that via its search monopoly, Google has been able to build a new version of HTML that it controls directly.
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AMP isn't a new version of HTML. It is a subset of HTML. Oh and without it surfers(me) are going to install ad blockers & skip slow sites.
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It's not a subset of HTML. It has a whole bunch of new Google-controlled tags. https://www.ampproject.org/docs/reference/components … You can't make your own.
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It is subset. Tags are implemented w standard JavaScript. If you could make your own tags, we'd be back to regular HTML and just as slow.
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