There are a few, suppressed but strident rumblings by low-tech media companies trying to resist Google's new accelerated mobile pages (AMP) technology. We, the end-users reading the AMP media pages, experience faster page load times. However there may be some nefarious funny business enabling these experiences:
AMP aggressively pre-fetches everything you might possibly click on, burning the data in your data plan.
And Google is applying enormous, predatory pressures on media web sites to embrace their technology:
This latest phenomenon adds to the growing list of repressive, monopolistic practices the evil search giant (ESG) inflicts upon the web ecosystem:
I do not fault many of Google's efforts to move technology forward (e.g. Google's work on security, containerization, and services mesh). In these cases, Google is applying dozens of great developers to pushing interoperable standards forward with a little less heavy-handed policy choice.
However, I do find Google's behaviors in the "Open Markets" story to be unethical.
Shame on you, Google. Please exercise some ethics and stop being so evil.
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