Nope. It brings you and me confusion and Google ad revenue. I’m frustrated that it’s effectively a centralization push for aspects of the Internet that have historically be decentralized.
The bit about Google AMP pages address confusing people is spot on. I’ve just had to tell my wife about it (she’s starting a blog/site on parenting and Google told her there are AMP errors - panic mode on!!).
What happened to the effort out allowing AMP on own domains?
Don’t worry, Google will soon start showing the expected (but incorrect) domain name in Chrome.
Sarcasm?
I don’t think it is, even if it is, it’s not far from the truth of google hiding paths in the url bar
AMP is probably my least favorite thing to happen to the internet in the last ~3 years.
Does it bring me anything of value? Slightly faster load times /sometimes/ ?
Nope. It brings you and me confusion and Google ad revenue. I’m frustrated that it’s effectively a centralization push for aspects of the Internet that have historically be decentralized.
The bit about Google AMP pages address confusing people is spot on. I’ve just had to tell my wife about it (she’s starting a blog/site on parenting and Google told her there are AMP errors - panic mode on!!).
What happened to the effort out allowing AMP on own domains?
A PM for a new chat app jingled their keys and now AMP is dead.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-amp-real-url/