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throwaway2048 on Aug 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: iOS 11 Safari will automatically strip AMP links f...

While that can be a bad thing, in this specific case it is curtailing a similar abusive overreach by google, and IMO a good thing.

You can use exactly the same arguement you made against AMP, I don't see negating AMP as some great evil.

wutbrodo on Aug 23, 2017 [–]

Yea it's really rare for me to interpret a situation as Apple making a pro-consumer move and Google being anti-consumer[1], but here we are.

[1] or more charitably appealing to a subset of users at high cost to a non-trivial fractions of other users

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