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As a developer type, I don't like AMP for a variety of reasons. As mobile browser user...

Webmasters: you had your chance and you blew it. Your website is completely unusable on my phone. AMP exists because of your indifference and incompetence.



I feel exactly the opposite as a browser user.

AMP breaks the back button and makes it so I can't swipe to navigate back. It puts google.com in the address bar so that I can't easily copy the link and paste it to someone else. It puts a permanent, excessively tall border on top of every page that I can't get rid of, making the usable viewing area much much smaller. (Oh and that X button that looks like it would close it? That takes you back to the search results. Figure that one out.) It breaks nearly every convention my device has for webpages and is totally nonstandard.

I really really wish google gave a way to disable AMP links in their results but they don't listen to people like me.


I realised reading these comments that I've never actually seen an AMP page in search results.

Somebody mentioned that if you use duckduckgo and prefix your search with "!g" (to search on Google), you don't get AMP results. That's what I do, so I guess it's working for me. :)




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