What is Amp, and why is it so scary?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimf...
Basically it's a way for google to promote web pages that are better formatted for mobile devices that use a limited subset of html and restrict use of javascript. The pages are hosted on google.com as additional assurance that they will load quickly.
I do believe it's scary to some because it seems like it's giving google a lot of power and control over content on the web.
The original page is hosted on the original domain. What other hosts provide are AMP caches to display them faster. For example, Microsoft Bing:
- https://blogs.bing.com/search/September-2016/bing-app-joins-...
- https://blogs.bing.com/Webmaster-Blog/September-2018/Introdu...
- https://www.bing-amp.com/c/s/amp.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimf...
>The pages are hosted on google.com
Anyone can roll their own AMP pages and host it on their domains. For example: https://amp.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6yj6iw/what_did_...
This includes getting your own amp lightning icon in search results when you host with certified CDNs.
Also, I could not find a list of certified CDNs.
[0]: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/validator/...
