> I’ve never read anything about AMP that claims the intent is privacy.
Why else do you think it loads from Google's cache?
> it seems to me that Google could do the exact same thing with normal webpages.
Nope. The publisher needs to opt in to having their content served by Google; and the ad metrics, analytics, and login need to be delayed until the user clicks on the result. That can't happen without cooperation from the page. Hence AMP. I don't even do web development, and the design of AMP is mind-numbingly obvious even to me.
Why else do you think it loads from Google's cache?
> it seems to me that Google could do the exact same thing with normal webpages.
Nope. The publisher needs to opt in to having their content served by Google; and the ad metrics, analytics, and login need to be delayed until the user clicks on the result. That can't happen without cooperation from the page. Hence AMP. I don't even do web development, and the design of AMP is mind-numbingly obvious even to me.