“It began on a cheery October morning in New York City; the company had gathered the press together at a buzzy breakfast spot named Sadelle’s in SoHo. As the assembled reporters ate their bagels and lox, Google’s vice president of news, Richard Gingras, explained that the open web was in crisis. Sites were too slow, too hard to use, too filled with ads. As a result, he warned, people were flocking to the better experiences offered by social platforms and app stores. If this trend continued, it would be the end of the web as we know it.”
Yeah, well maybe if Google hadn’t played its part in convincing software devs that they should own front ends too and make webpages with client-side JavaScript instead of server-side rendered HTML a lot of this problem wouldn’t have existed in the first place. Just a thought.
https://www.theverge.com/23711172/google-amp-accelerated-mobile-pages-search-publishers-lawsuit