alt Hacker NewsKnowing Google, there’s a good chance it will turn out like AMP [0]: concerning, but only spotty adoption, and ultimately kind of abandoned/irrelevant.
It’s the Google way.
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notnullorvoid • today at 2:49 AM
Hopefully that's what happens, but it seems like compared to AMP there is more of a joint standardisation effort this time which worries me.
candiddevmike • today at 3:48 AM
AMP lives on, mostly as AMP for Email and used by things like Google Workspace for performing actions within an email body (allow listed javascript basically).
DaiPlusPlus • today at 2:45 AM
> It’s the Google way.
Don't forget the all-important last step: abruptly killing the product - no matter how popular or praiseworthy it is (or heck: even profitable!) if unnamed Leadership figures say so; vide: killedbygoogle.com
The amount of times I've had to translate an AMP link that I found online before sending it onwards to friends in the hopes of reducing the tracking impact has been huge over the years. Now there are extensions that'll do it, but that hasn't always been the case, and these aren't foolproof either.
I do hope this MCP push fizzles, but I worry that Google could just double down and just expose users to less of the web (indirectly) by still only showing results from MCP-enabled pages. It'd be like burning the Library of Alexandria, but at this point I wouldn't put the tech giants above that.