&gt; At any rate, this is no worse in principle than the Google Analytics scripts everybody includes on every page everywhere, so it&#x27;s mostly just a bunch of FUD.<p>This is a rather blind comment. Not everyone uses Google Analytics and those that do have actively chosen to do so. Plus, Google Analytics is inherently tied to Google services so there are no privacy or control issues.<p>AMP seems to be intended more as an open toolkit more akin to Bootstrap or jQuery. Requiring that AMP&#x27;s scripts be loaded from a Google CDN is like saying you can&#x27;t load jQuery or Bootstrap from anywhere but their CDNs. Some developers want to strictly control where their code is hosted for various reasons and Google isn&#x27;t allowing them to do that.<p>Some developers also want to control who can and can&#x27;t log their visitors. Google isn&#x27;t allowing them to do that in this case. Anything that loads that script can be logged by Google.<p>Certainly not FUD.