Oh no, not from Google! You're right, I should read the original page.
Results from opening the original page, without adblock, and scrolling down to read the article:
Over 1000 requests, 30MB, and 2m later I killed it early to save my poor browser (it's ok, FF, I won't let them do that to you again). 121 unique domains, including a dozen from google, as well as amazon, yahoo, facebook, maybe 10 other ad networks I didn't recognize, at least 10 analytics sites, and over a dozen separate CDNs. 2 separate auto-playing videos. As I scrolled back up it reloaded the ad slots a second time.
AMP? 145 requests and 3MB in 5s. 42 unique domains, fewer google domains. One ad. Nothing autoplayed.
Still not pretty, but I know which one I prefer. I'm not trying to argue HN link submission policy here, I'm just saying AMP might be net good on the web and maybe we should consider leaving it next time for the good of other readers.
And to be fair this website probably has one of the highest adblock user ratios of any online (both html/amp go down to 80/40 requests with uBlock Origin enabled) so this doesn't affect us as much proportionately. But at least AMP is doing something with this dumpster fire.
