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Devil's advocate: Google is generous by caching AMP sites on their own servers. The only thing you can't do is to include your own invasive third party tracking (ok, you can use Google's of course), which is bad anyway. But you can still include your ad just as a <img> in the page, no JS and tracking. Like a dumb print ad. I don't really have a problem with that.

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"Google is generous by storing your email on their own servers."

"Facebook is generous by storing your posts and friend lists on their own servers."

I agree

With the nonsensical sarcastic point? Or the real point?

There is no such thing as a generous corporation. It goes completely against maximizing shareholder value. Google gets something out of AMP, something they can quantify monetarily.

You do know that a corporation does not maximize shareholder value, nor is that their purpose. A company can do something generous. Sometimes something that helps the customer also helps the company.

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