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                                                    1. Oh... only just now? DCNorg/816314000317288449
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                                                    Fun fact, since AMP has the URL of an article you can no longer track that link canonically in social. Make your numbers even worse w/Google
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                                                  Like I said--from the beginning--the principles of AMP fragment the internet, eat away at the open web, and...
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                                                Worst of all, AMP destroys principles of canonicalization that Google itself rightfully heavily attempted to cement. It isn't just look...
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                                              It is about giving your readers a URL they can trust and that URL shouldn't--it CAN'T--be Google(dot)com. This is more true now than ever
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                                            Now your existence on the web is fragmented at the BASE URL.
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                                          Without a consistent base URL sites are destroying reliability, trust, transparency in a time media desperately needs them. Also tracking.
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                                        Like this is basic shit. Without a consistent URL our effective ability to have web pages talk to each other is going to break down...
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                                      AMP is Google trying to force the garden to be closed when it has no support, principle or platform to provide a basis for doing so.
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                                    This is one of the fundamental reasons Facebook Instant Articles is less terrifying and offensive than AMP:
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                                  YOU CAN'T DISTRIBUTE A DIRECT LINK TO A Facebook Instant Article. This is a HUGE difference. Lots of other terrible things about AMP... but
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                                Make no mistake it's increasing drive to make sharing an AMP URL a behavior is a fundamental attack on the open web. A net neutrality issue.
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                              And this isn't even getting into its attack on the basic principles of HTML, community oversight of the web, or...
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                            The fact that AMP puts you in a space in which you swipe from publication to publication, bleeding trust issues from each together...
                            oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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                          If you don't trust Fox, and you open a NYT article, read it and swipe right and get Fox, you're going to trust the NYT less.
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                        But this is the AMP experience. This is what we're getting into. Oh but you're worrying just now?
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                      Don't forget the inability of publishers of all sizes to stand up to Google and tell them to go to hell increased adoption pressure on all.
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                    The media can whine endlessly about Google and Facebook, but honestly, we did this because we chose to. We didn't have to.
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                  Basically the story of digital media, right there ^
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                Media orgs can go on and on about how 'we didn't ask for this.' But we did ask for it...
                oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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              Media orgs asked for external powers to save us and they have cannibalized us because we failed to hold them to any standards or oversight.
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            When the news industry can't even provide a watch dog on its own businesses how can we get anyone to trust us on anything else?
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          My fav thing about the AMP argument is when publications' response is 'well we can just pull back if it doesn't work.' Uhhuh...
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        I'm still waiting on that pull-back from programmatic advertising now that we know it is a race to the bottom that destroys reader trust.
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    Since we're going to be waiting a while, go to a few AMP pages and try and get to the original version without editing the URL.
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      Worth noting: AMP is Google trying to become a platform. It isn't a platform. And Google+ has proven it doesn't know how to make one.
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        What could be the reason for this sudden huge push to have all links run their way through Google I wonder... fortune.com/2015/08/18/facebook-google/
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          PS: this writing was on the wall in big bold 210px letters since day one Chronotope/651763107908481025
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            "Using AMP? The cost for the web, and for those who do business on it, is much, much too high." ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/ampersand/
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