<story><title>The Problem with AMP</title><url>https://80x24.net/post/the-problem-with-amp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freyir</author><text>AMP is one of the most frustrating experiences I&amp;#x27;ve had with Google. the fact that it&amp;#x27;s foisted on users, with no option to disable it, makes it borderline infuriating.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re stuck on an AMP page in your mobile browser, you can click on the browser&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Request desktop site&amp;quot; option to load the full page.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tehlike</author><text>I am really curious if an ordinary user gets frustrated with AMP as much as an HN reader does.&lt;p&gt;PS: Not intending to be sarcastic.
PS2: I work for google, but not on something amp related.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Problem with AMP</title><url>https://80x24.net/post/the-problem-with-amp/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>freyir</author><text>AMP is one of the most frustrating experiences I&amp;#x27;ve had with Google. the fact that it&amp;#x27;s foisted on users, with no option to disable it, makes it borderline infuriating.&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re stuck on an AMP page in your mobile browser, you can click on the browser&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Request desktop site&amp;quot; option to load the full page.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>flukus</author><text>&amp;gt; If you&amp;#x27;re stuck on an AMP page in your mobile browser, you can click on the browser&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Request desktop site&amp;quot; option to load the full page.&lt;p&gt;So you have to load the AMP page and then a potentially bloated normal page. That&amp;#x27;s AMP doing the exact opposite of it&amp;#x27;s intended (or at least stated) purpose. Noscript, flashblock and adblock have done far more for page speeds than than AMP ever will.</text></comment>