Does it though?
"Its goal, Google claims, is a better user experience because AMP pages load faster than web pages built with standard web technology."
But does it actually achieve that? It seems to me the only reason AMP pages load faster is because on poorly designed pages the bloat is pre-loaded. Websites with a modicum of thought and design put in load just fine without AMP. Then again bloat seems to be the name of the game nowadays with 30 to 50 scripts on a page being "normal" if you allow such a thing (go-go-gadget no-script).
"Engineers at Google designed AMP in partnership with publishers and other tech companies to help web pages load faster and improve the user experience on mobile devices – not to harm header bidding,"
No doubt header bidding was an afterthought or a happy co-incidence so not a word of untruth there. But Google clearly had a goal with AMP and it being PURELY helping publishers load pages faster does not seem to align with any possible goal of Google. Until you factor in the control it gives Google.
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