How Google’s AMP project speeds up the Web

For AMP, two things in particular stand in the way of a lean, mean browsing experience: JavaScript… and advertisements that use JavaScript. The AMP story is compelling. It has good guys (Google) and bad guys (everyone not using Google Ads), and it’s true to most of our experiences. But this narrative has some fundamental problems. For example, Google owns the largest ad server network on the Web. If ads are such a problem, why doesn’t Google get to work speeding up the ads?

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