How do you feel about AMP urls?

[avalanch]

So I decided to do a search about amp to see how other browser "communities" felt about AMP'd urls. Apparently, not everyone is thrilled with it, aside from webmasters being promised higher search positions on google.

Apparently, there's even this

AmputatorBot: Remove AMP from your URLs

AMP is threatening your privacy and the Open Web. With AmputatorBot, you can remove it from your URLs. AmputatorBot is available in many forms: here, as bots on Reddit and Twitter and as a free and public API

www.amputatorbot.com

But how do you feel about amp urls? I'm curious to see some more opinions, I didn't dive too deep into looking but the search results themselves seem pretty telling..

 

[RichDevman]

They are totally unnecessary. Nobody in SEO worries about amp urls these days.

 

[BikeGremlin]

As one of the early adopters of AMP (for WordPress), and after having "used" it for years, I decided to ditch it.

My very inconclusive (methodology 101 mistakes, mostly "forced") "AMP case study."

Relja

 

[Suzanne O]

To me anything that isn’t a .com, .net, or .info sounds scammy.
It also looks like your site is a bot site.

 

[avalanch]

Yeah unfortunately it does add a ugly looking ?amp=1 appendage to urls with the ampxf addon and it does change the layout quite a bit.

 

[briansol]

No longer relevant IMO. I ran the ampxf addon for sometime and it worked well for what it did, but it's not a needed thing anymore. failed experiment by google.