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- Aggressive marketing of platform defaults, such as Edge on Windows - Aggressive misuse of incompatibilities, such as video calling for Chrome and Edge (e.g.
by uniqueuid 4y ago
- Aggressive marketing of platform defaults, such as Edge on Windows
- Aggressive misuse of incompatibilities, such as video calling for Chrome and Edge (e.g. Teams)
- Loss of websites optimizing for standards and instead optimizing for the monopolist (Chrome). Same as with IE.
- calvinmorrison 4y agoyou gotta admit the ads are catchy... "there's no place like Chrome"
- smcl 4y agoI haven't seen this (though I'm not in an anglophone country) - it's def catchy, where have you seen/heard it?
- calvinmorrison 4y agoon the side of a bus stop of all places in Philadelphia.
- smcl 4y agoAh cool thanks, you also read my mind and answered the question I meant to ask - whether it was a physical ad or just a digital one :D That's mad, you'd think Chrome is so ubiquitous, and Google ads themselves so popular, that they wouldn't need to shell out money on this kind of IRL ads.
- Someone 4y agoAlso: people buy a new computer, check out the browser shipping with it and find it acceptable. I would guess many users whose niece/nephew/grandma installed Firefox for them on their old computer won’t even know they switched products.