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Comment by tschellenbach | Hacker News Reader

It's actually a pretty nifty feature when you're browsing the web from a plane's slow wifi.

I actually like the AMP pages. Aside from public radio sites and a handful of other sites, news pages are so full of ads and slow loading, especially on mobile, that they're unreadable.

With AMP I can actually read articles from my local newspaper or TV station.

I guess in this case, I see it as a win for fast loading pages with just the article I'm looking for. Using AMP is my way of fighting back against autoplaying video ads and click bait links mixed in with news.

I use Crystal for iOS and all that stuff is gone for me normally.

But the people who designed the page in the first place should be able to make it just as fast without using AMP.

> But the people who designed the page in the first place should be able to make it just as fast without using AMP.

...but they don't, which is the point.

I'll throw my hat in on being a fan of reading news on AMP pages as well (though reddit amp does seem completely broken). I wouldn't care in the least if news site x instead wrote a fast site, I'd happily use that instead. But until they do, yeah, as a user I'll click on the amp link first.

And I'm the opposite. I do my best to NOT use AMP pages. If a site can't be bothered to optimize it's own pages, then they don't get my attention/money/whatever. I can do without. Let the best developed sites win.

It would be a lot better if instead they just ranked pages with slow load times and JavaScript lower, oh wait, that makes it harder for ads...

No, only amp pages can be preloaded by google's SERP, so that is large reason it is so fast to render.

Yeah, the problem they are trying to solve is absolutely real. The concern is how they are trying to solve it. Instead of pushing sites to fix it, they are pushing sites to become part of the Google-ecosystem. Instead of trying to fix things, they'd rather use the opportunity as a power-grab

Or browsing from a developing country's mobile network.

Any better than noscript? How about lynx?

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