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That's a pretty wild take, considering that the author specifically said they randomized the order of suggested browsers. They didn't push Chrome, they pushed "
by bigstrat2003 3y ago
That's a pretty wild take, considering that the author specifically said they randomized the order of suggested browsers. They didn't push Chrome, they pushed "anything but IE6".
- coding123 3y agoI mean what he wrote is even less "wild" than the title of the post.
- Springtime 3y agoThe grandparent comment would only be somewhat revelant in future versions of Youtube and Google services, since they did end up pushing users to 'try' Chrome exclusively (for Youtube in the footer and everything else via top banner/popups, for both Firefox and even non-Chrome Chromium browsers). Which given the lawyers' concerns in this article is curious the 180 they did.
- rekttrader 3y agoI distinctly remember at the time that Google even had a browser extension that loaded chromium inside the IE6 viewport... Shady browser advertising toolbar companies were using that extension to hijack and silently upgrade users into Chrome. Google bought that company as well.