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1. Zach Leatherman 3 min later

   The raw unadulterated cringe of “Make the web great again” 🫠

   1. Rob C 🐳 20 min later

      @zachleat 🤢

   2. Konnor Rogers 55 min later

      @zachleat does it come with a fun red hat?

      1. Zach Leatherman 57 min later

         @konnorrogers hopefully more zissou

   3. Danny Blue 1 hr later

      @zachleat I think they even had AMP GDEs for a while.

      1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

         @deebloo certificates aren’t just for HTTPS

   4. Anneke 1 hr later

      @zachleat any riff on the MAGA thing is cringe. All the conference talks with jokey titles, ugh

      1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

         @Anneke yeah, 100%—folks are a little too eager to hitch their wagon to that reference

2. Matthias Ott 5 min later

   @zachleat @davidpierce …and most of them signed with links to their personal sites. ☺️

   1. Zach Leatherman 6 min later

      @matthiasott yes!! 🏆

3. Ethan Marcotte 10 min later

   @zachleat yeah. the google-v.-publishers framing makes a LOT of sense, but AMP was, at least in my mind, the single most devastating thing google did to whatever goodwill they’d built up with the broader tech community

   1. Zach Leatherman 24 min later

      @beep in tough competition with google reader! 😅

      1. Ethan Marcotte 31 min later

         @zachleat too soon zach

         1. Zach Leatherman 42 min later

            @beep if you think that is too soon I can’t wait to tell you what the founding fathers said about google reader

      2. mrblank 44 min later

         @zachleat @beep Still mad

   2. Scott Jenson 50 min later

      @beep @zachleat So much to talk about here. But unfortunately, I completely agree. (many of us tried)

      1. Ethan Marcotte 53 min later

         @scottjenson @zachleat I know a lot of you did, and I appreciate the hell out of all of you who tried 💜

         1. Zach Leatherman 56 min later

            @beep (same!) @scottjenson

4. Christian Pietsch 🍑 21 min later

   @zachleat @davidpierce

   I believe Google is the devil. But this is hilarious:

   “You meet with a Facebook person and you see in their eyes they’re psychotic,” says one media executive who’s dealt with all the major platforms. “The Apple person kind of listens but then does what it wants to do. The Google person honestly thinks what they’re doing is the best thing.”

   1. Zach Leatherman 25 min later

      @chpietsch @davidpierce 😅😅😅

5. 💠 Dave No One 💠 57 min later

   @zachleat @chpietsch @davidpierce “Sites were too slow, too hard to use, too filled with ads.” … - guess who was providing all these ads to the sites making them slow?!

   1. Zach Leatherman 59 min later

      @dans_root @chpietsch @davidpierce that’s the wildest part of the article (for me):

      “My reaction was that the main problem is ads, so why don’t you fix the ads? They said they can’t fix the ads. It’s too hard.”

      1. Christian Pietsch 🍑 1 hr later

         @zachleat @dans_root @davidpierce

         Thou shall use only the one true ad network that is Google's.

         Why do you think they acquired Doubleclick?

6. Jim 1 hr later

   @zachleat @davidpierce this is just ad companies that cause problems for mobile user complaining they can't get away with jamming so video ads on every page. I have no sympathy for them

7. Keith Duke 1 hr later

   @zachleat @davidpierce This made me think, we jumped through the AMP hoop for traffic, least at CBSinteractive we did, but it hit me reading this, AI is going to kill a lot of sites. Why go to CNET to read a review when AI can summarize multiples. Also aicritic.com is available from godaddy, wink wink nudge nudge say no more!

   1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

      @kduke @davidpierce this reply seems… computer generated

      1. Keith Duke 1 hr later

         @zachleat @davidpierce A computer can be this silly? 😜 🎉