Comment by aeharding
10 years ago
AMP is bastardized HTML used as an excuse to making a website fast in the first place. I totally agree.
Additionally, AMP wants to become the arbiter of the mobile web. Just look at their list of "Supported ad networks." [1]
Who gave them the authority?
AMP worries me greatly.
[1] https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/builtins/a...
They've been pretty good about accepting PRs to support any ad network from what I've heard: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q...
Yes, just as ABP has been good about accepting PRs to add "unobtrusive ads" - until they started demanding money.
NEVER give this power to a central authority that's not democratically controlled.
And yet, some people still do that mistake.
I agree that their current process should become more democratic, and that this is a real concern. There is also benefit in moving quickly to try and solve a real problem and prove that this approach will work. I'm still cautiously optimistic.
All open source projects have some kind of "central control" in the sense that they can accept or reject pull requests and define what the official version is.
But you can fork them, so it should be okay, right?
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