Or why do they need to change the appearance from the original version of the page at all? It just looks unaesthetic
Because Google. That is all.
They ruin everything they touch. By now the OP’s name and particulars have been fed into every laptop, desktop, mainframe and supermarket scanner that collectively makes up the global information conspiracy. Otherwise known as, “The Beast.”
Fuck AMP. Ignore it, don’t use it, let it wither and die off. Today.
That’s not gonna happen. It’s forced down your throat and most people don’t have the knowledge to do anything about it. Much like religion.
Hey, I’m all for killing every god, but if your vote at the federal level doesn’t count and the cops are all violent bigots from the next county over, wtf else are you supposed to champion? A living fucking wage? Body autonomy? Simply NOT being a rounding error in one more billionaire’s financial report? Plant your flag wherever you need to, but I say again: Fuck AMP.
We’re on the same page here, but you have to be realistic. The amount of people who still don’t know where to find the any-key on their laptop, is staggering. I have little hope that the masses will ignore amp or even be consious about the existence of amp. I’m affraid amp will remain unless google decides it is done with amp.
However, other in this threat have mentioned that google might in fact be considering abandoning amp. So there is a ray of sunshine in the otherwise dark and hopeless outlook of the future
AMP sites were enough to make me change the default search engine on my iPhone and I’m a very lazy person.
The good news is that Google is deprecating AMP now - or at least, its no longer a requirement for getting a ‘Top Stories’ place in search results - so I’m hoping we see it wither as sites no longer field compelled to use it
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-retires-amp-icon-survey/406770/
The original is often just as bad.
But you know what would load even faster and look decent across most form factors? Plain semantically correct HTML with minimal CSS and no JavaScript. For some reason that solution doesn’t seem to occur to Google’s engineers /s
I know we’re on No Stupid Questions but I feel like this is a stupid question. What’s wrong with AMP?
Different people will have different answers, but one of the most common thing I have heard is that it’s basically another way that a big tech company was trying to control the internet.
Google started to basically require websites use AMP in order to appear in search results. This is a conflict because AMP doesn’t support all advertisements, but it does support all ads by Google. This matters on mobile because people are less-likely to have adblock. So they weren’t telling websites “if you don’t use our ads, you won’t show up in search results”, but they were implying “if you would like to continue to make a living you will use our ads and services.”
Well… what is an AMP site?
Accelerated Mobile Pages. Basically a sort of fast-load version of your actual page for mobile use. Something Google came up with to enhance mobile search? It never really got off imo…
