Unfortunately El Goog is now a de facto monopoly both for makers (organic traffic) and users (AMP, discovery, federated logins etc).
I'm not angry at Goog for winning, they did it by (mostly) being 100x more awesome than the competition and surfing the network effects into the endgame. But here's the elephant in the room: outside walled gardens, Goog runs da tubes, and they're not as fluffy as Mr Cutts would have you believe. Mandatory JS and AMP are the not-even thin end of the wedge.
It certainly is it's on monopoly, but at least for personal use folks who don't like JavaScript can avoid it if they really want.
Just generally this decision for logins and javascript seems pretty... not a huge deal IMO for folks who aren't a fan of JavaScript, whitelisting google seems like a pretty simple choice.
Unfortunately El Goog is now a de facto monopoly both for makers (organic traffic) and users (AMP, discovery, federated logins etc).
I'm not angry at Goog for winning, they did it by (mostly) being 100x more awesome than the competition and surfing the network effects into the endgame. But here's the elephant in the room: outside walled gardens, Goog runs da tubes, and they're not as fluffy as Mr Cutts would have you believe. Mandatory JS and AMP are the not-even thin end of the wedge.