How to fight back against Google AMP

Big thread from 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712733. The cutoff for dupes is a year or so:

Fear not, however: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23322730 is there to fill your AMP-fighting needs.

I disallow my blog from being indexed by Google. While they obviously don't care, and really all it does it deny me a large percentage of my traffic (it's a small personal blog, so it doesn't hurt me), if enough people do it or if even one of my posts gets popular for some reason and people are looking for it, Googles results suffer. This seems like a good protest. I always encourage people to put a "No AMP" link at the bottom of their blog or similar, deny Google in robots.txt, and link it to a post or page that explains why you're no longer allowing Google (this one is good: https://uglyduck.ca/dear-google-im-blocking-you-from-my-webs...).

I have to disagree with his final suggestion, lazy loading images for a faster load. In my opinion, unless your page is extremely image heavy, lazy loading images causes more problems than it solves. It's a janky and annoying user experience every time I scroll a Medium post and have to wait a few seconds waiting for a big blurry square to pop into an image. I would much rather that stuff was loading eagerly and ready for me when I scroll.

Not to mention, knowing about their ecosystem, I shudder to think of the size of some of these JS libraries performing the lazy loading.

When I read something like this, I come away feeling sad. It's a well-intentioned essay, written by someone who understands why websites are slow. It pleads with readers to not make their websites slow and preserve their sovereignty on their own domains.

I'm not sad about any of that. I'm sad because the author skips right past a key point: how we got here. Why are websites slow, when there are good reasons to want to be fast? In my opinion, this isn't some kind of cosmic accident. It's not because most people building websites don't care or are incompetent.

Slow websites are, to my mind, a symptom. The disease is that there are economic incentives to do the things that make websites slow. Well-intentioned software engineers and web developers who like fast, light, clean websites are often not positioned to win the political battles required to cut unnecessary elements, third-party scripts, and so on.

Openness and respect for user privacy are wonderful, incredibly appealing things. I don't think I've ever been able to lean on then to convince other parts of a company to forego revenue, reach, or measurability. This could easily be an effect of my limited skills of persuasion.

I hope others have had different experiences.

I just came to despise Google search five minutes ago, when I tried to search for "SpaceX launch" and it did not give link to the official NASA live streaming page, even after I added "NASA" search term. NASA's website was not even on the first page. Mostly various news agencies like New Yorker, WaPo or NYT.

Looks like this was the intended URL: https://markosaric.com/google-amp/

Define not “How to fight back against Google AMP” :/

I think you got the URL wrong there.