I block AMP and its related domains in my aggressive blocking hosts list[1]. I've found many AMP related sites are purely for marketing, or 'news' articles that are thinly veiled ads. I haven't missed it at all. I also don't use Google, so perhaps that it part of it, but I applaud your decision to remove AMP. The web isn't meant to be centralized in this way.

[1] https://github.com/lightswitch05/hosts/blob/master/tracking-...

I block AMP pages too. Unfortunately, Google artificially slows down AMP pages so that they literally take 8 seconds to load if you block the AMP JavaScript. (Check the inline CSS.)

SquareWheel

Are you sure that isn't just a timeout function in case AMP fails to load?

edit: Dug up the code.

    
        body {animation:-amp-start 8s steps(1,end) 0s 1 normal both}
        @keyframes -amp-start{from{visibility:hidden} to{visibility:visible}}
    
    
        
            body {animation:none}

The timeout function is turned off if JS isn't available, so JS being disabled shouldn't be a problem.

I'm guessing this is actually to delay page paint so it doesn't display when half-loaded.

detaro

parent said

> block the AMP JavaScript

not,

> JS being disabled

SquareWheel

Then the noscript tag wouldn't fire here. But that's just shooting yourself in the foot. A page won't function with half its code running.

lightswitch05

I think you might have missed the point of my comment. If you block AMP scripts, you will definitely encounter broken sites. The point I was trying to make are that those broken sites are mostly junk anyways. Overloaded with ads, tracking, and other manipulative content geared at turning me into the product. I haven't missed those sites any. However, I recognize that I'm not the average user, which is why these blocks are in my aggressive list. I initially put the blocks into my regular block list which is then consumed by Steven Black's hosts [1]. Very quickly a ticket was opened to whitelist AMP [2]. Funny enough, the user requesting that AMP be white listed posted screen shots of broken advertisements disguised as 'news' articles. To make everyone happy I moved it to my aggressive list which isn't included in Steven's project.

Anyways, long story short, I don't like AMP and don't mind the occasional broken site. But it's definitely not for everyone.

[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

[2] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/657