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by driverdan 2617 days ago
AMP does not work unless you include a Google hosted JS file.

From https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/learn/spe...:

> AMP HTML documents MUST

> ...

> contain a <script async src="https://cdn.ampproject.org/v0.js"></script> tag inside their head tag.

That is not a web standard.

2 comments

Wow that is disgusting. Why does it need to include remote code to function? How can they even pretend this is an open standard when it has a backdoor?
It's a subset of HTML, built on WebComponents. The subset is defined by a separate standards board and built on web technologies.