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Comment by instagraham | Hacker News Reader

Whenver i am trying to share a news article with a friend, and Google throws up the AMP page at me, I take the time to select the original article link and share that.

Websites deserve their own traffic, not Google's.

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Not having to do this is a good reason to use another search engine than Google's as your default.

Same here. In some cases, AMP screws up the article formatting as well at least in my experience. I never share the Google/AMP link if I can help it.

You don't need to do this. Clicking the Share button will grab the canonical URL, which is the original source article.

Is that very different from "Whenever I find a site hosted through CloudFlare, I look up the origin server's IP address and link to that. Webservers deserve traffic, not CDNs."?

Unlike a normal CDN, AMP does not serve the same content as the origin. You need to make a special, lite edition of the original web page which does not work on Safari or Firefox, and may not necessarily make your site faster. [1]

You cannot switch AMP cache to another vendor if you want Google rank your AMP site higher. [2] You also need a speical TLS certificate with the CanSignHttpExchanges extension that can only be get from DigiCert (for a price)[3] and not from Let's Encrypt [4].

[1] https://unlikekinds.com/article/google-amp-page-speed [2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/41683427 [3] https://web.dev/how-to-set-up-signed-http-exchanges/#step-1 [4] https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cansignhttpexchanges-ext...

> You need to make a special, lite edition of the original web page which does not work on Safari or Firefox

AMP being a subset of HTML, that does not look accurate.

It is not just about the markup. Mozilla and Apple made it very clear they won't implement this (for good): https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5745285984681984

Yes. Google are facing many lawsuits that suggest that AMP manipulated the ads platforms, in their favour.

Using a different CDN shouldn't significantly impact a site's income, but using AMP may have.

You can't do that, assuming that it was set up properly (i.e. they either set up CloudFlare immediately without disclosing the server IPs in the first place, or blocked all non-CloudFlare traffic on the firewall).

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