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Towards the end of AOL (early 2000s), they used to take all content that you visited through their browsers and re-compress and sometimes remove things from the sites. This sometimes really ruined image color, layouts, style etc.

The agency I worked at it was a huge problem because back then clients and business people still used AOL and would see the jacked up versions of their site. There was literally nothing you could do, they did it to small and large sites without abandon.

AMP reminds me a bit of that type of setup with AOL re-compressing and crunching down sites through their network. I agree with Google on doing this for email for security but not necessarily websites. AMP to me is quite annoying and in general a bad move.



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