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As a user I've learned to avoid AMP pages because the UX is horrible:

* back button is broken 1/2 the time

* the bar wastes 1/3 of my screen

* I can no longer see what site I am on in the url

* it's hard to navigate to the / of the site

* I can't forward the link

* being on a good network in US it solves no problem that I have

What I'd really like to see is a way to opt-out of seeing AMP'ed pages in my search results. Or at least a way to navigate from AMP page to its native version.

Further, I noticed that AMP is a signal for low quality content. I am guessing sophisticated publishers are conservative enough to wait and see. And individuals haven't bothered dealing with it. So you get low-end publishers in between.

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Interesting. As a user, I've learned to only click on AMP results. They load quickly and reliably (no blank white site) even on LTE, and they never have intrusive adds. If they added an option for "only show me AMP unless I click a button to ask for the other junk", I would opt in day 1.

Only content owner should decide what ad will be shown. Offending this rule means breaking deals with advertisers, it's reputation losses.

Visiting non-AMP sites on mobile is masochistic (e.g. try searching news results). You get basically all the same problems, but also pop-unders, late loading ads, greedy javascript, autoplaying videos, and other bad behavior.

The AMP is really quite solid for the news use case, in my experience.

Using Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin pretty much solved that problem completely for me.

I use Firefox on Android + uBlock Origin as a default, but even loading the Firefox browser takes longer than loading, reading the first few lines of an AMP article, then going back because it wasn't interesting. And I have a high-end phone.

>And I have a high-end phone.

And bigger issues. My Galaxy S3 takes 4 secs to open Firefox without cache compared to 3 secs to open Chrome.

AMP is bad on mobile Safari. The URL bar does not hide and reveal properly, the reader button doesn't work, and the scrolling momentum feels very wrong. That's why I try to avoid AMP links.

Non-AMP sites are frequently improved by the reader button. That's how I prefer to read news sites.

Absolutely. How could I forget disabled reader!

Use uMatrix plugin to block unwanted content.

Agree it's a signal for low-quality bordering-on-clickbait content, so subconsciously also find myself avoiding them. Unrelated: formatting lists like in your comment makes them really hard to read on mobile.

Thanks, formatting fixed.

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