Completely agree, while technically AMP is suitable but it creates a walled garden by using Google - who actually boost page rankings if you use it, so they have publishers by the balls "forcing" them to use AMP to get higher in their rankings.
> So they have publishers by the balls "forcing" them to use AMP to get higher in their rankings.
Except that I don't write blogposts to please the Google search engine. A site can be found via many other ways. News sites like Reddit are a great way to be discovered, aswell as HN. There's also link dumps like Pinboard which are another way to discover, aswell as others. Twitter, etc
I think the fear of being watched by hacked IoT devices running closed-source software which is under control of a vendor will go a long way to help many people understand RMS' thesis, if they haven't done so before now. People tend to pay attention when the problem is on their doorstep (or in their living room, car, etc...).
Except that I don't write blogposts to please the Google search engine. A site can be found via many other ways. News sites like Reddit are a great way to be discovered, aswell as HN. There's also link dumps like Pinboard which are another way to discover, aswell as others. Twitter, etc