>><i>...and that the company went so far as to hinder non-AMP ads "by giving them artificial one second delays" to convince publishers not to use header bidding.</i><p>Isn't this criminal, as in facing jail time? And this was not done by a rogue person, execs debated this and entire teams implemented and knew about this.
<i>"At this point in time with the AMP project, Google can’t retroactively release the control it had in AMP’s adoption. And we can’t go back to a pre-AMP web to start over [...]"</i><p>Why not? Someone with AMP knowledge knows why? Wouldn't it be as easy as removing a few tags?
The component parts of this story have been extensively discussed this month.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25466416" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25466416</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25448718" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25448718</a>