Google AMP gets a shock to its system as advisor quits, lawsuit claims foul play

  • >>...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.

    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.

  • "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 [...]"

    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.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25466416

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25448718

  • If abusing your browser market share and search market share at the same time at the highest possible levels is foul, then this lawsuit should be the easiest case to prove of all time.