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> distracting header onto a space constrained mobile device

This is my pet hate with Google's AMP mode which most sites seem to be switching to.

On my iPhone 5S it breaks hiding the browser's address bar when you scroll, then you have the AMP 'address bar' of the same size, then you finally get to the site's sticky header and footer. On Huffington Post the content is around 50% the size of my screen. Oh and it breaks Safari's Reader mode, which I assume also means accessibility features.

http://i.imgur.com/PNOQ4Hk.jpg

If anyone from Google is here, please do something about this as it is ridiculous.

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Google fix = buy a bigger phone, so you'll see same amount of content then 4 years ago.

And in case if someone from Google is listening, give the option to opt out of this AMP crap, I'll gladly pay for extra bandwidth.

Well, I do not because I am in a limited connection (~1.5GB per month). I gladly appreciate that sites loads faster when I am using a mobile connection too.

While I understand the pain of (sometimes) having broken sites when AMP is on, this really helps when someone is on a country where mobile internet is expensive.

Which is why an option was suggested

> And in case if someone from Google is listening, give the option to opt out of this AMP crap, I'll gladly pay for extra bandwidth.

How exactly do you land on AMP pages? Can't you just use Firefox on you phone?

Even AMP own page suffers from headers taking up 1/3 of the screen on mobile devices. https://www.ampproject.org/

> On my iPhone 5S it breaks hiding the browser's address bar when you scroll

I believe this is actually due to Safari iframe bugs. See: https://medium.com/@dvoytenko/amp-ios-scrolling-and-position...

Or, instead of using iframes, they could have just redirected via link to the actual site.

But that'd be crazy, right?

No, just way slower

Way slower? Linking to a page would be way slower than embedding the same page in an iframe?

Since when?

They use iFrames since they also have the swiping side to side interaction for multiple pages on the same topic.

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