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> But your article argues the opposite of your claim. It's not. The article talks about Youtube nailing the final nail in IEs coffin, which it did. As for sho

by troupo 2y ago

> But your article argues the opposite of your claim. It's not. The article talks about Youtube nailing the final nail in IEs coffin, which it did. As for shoving Chrome down everyone's throats I'm amazed no one remembers the ancient history of just 15 years ago: - showing it on search pages: http://www.webandsay.com/archives/google-is-actively-pushing-chrome-by-providing-a-download-link-from-the-home-page http://www.webandsay.com/archives/google-is-actively-pushing... - prominently showing it on Youtube: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-google-promotes-chrome.html http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/11/how-google-promotes...

Maxatar 2y ago
Fascinating how two people can read the same article and take away two opposite conclusions from it. If anything what Youtube did helped Firefox far more than it helped Chrome, but I suppose from your point of view it's the opposite. Ah well, c'est la vie!
- troupo 2y ago
  > If anything what Youtube did helped Firefox far more than it helped Chrome Let's see: - huge ad banners promoting Chrome - literally almost singlehandedly killing IE 6.0 - sabotaging Firefox: https://archive.is/tgIH9 https://archive.is/tgIH9 This... this is not ancient history. It happened 10-15 years ago. Unless you're very young, and I've fallen under the curse of the old age: --- start quote --- One disorienting thing about getting older that nobody tells you about is how weird it feels to get a really passionate, extremely wrong lecture from a much younger person about verifiable historical events you can personally remember pretty well --- end quote ---
- Izkata 2y ago
  > Fascinating how two people can read the same article Two different articles describing things a year apart. Youtube was pushing only Chrome long before they presented the three options to kill IE.

by troupo 2y ago

Maxatar 2y ago

Fascinating how two people can read the same article and take away two opposite conclusions from it. If anything what Youtube did helped Firefox far more than it helped Chrome, but I suppose from your point of view it's the opposite. Ah well, c'est la vie!

troupo 2y ago
> If anything what Youtube did helped Firefox far more than it helped Chrome Let's see: - huge ad banners promoting Chrome - literally almost singlehandedly killing IE 6.0 - sabotaging Firefox: https://archive.is/tgIH9 https://archive.is/tgIH9 This... this is not ancient history. It happened 10-15 years ago. Unless you're very young, and I've fallen under the curse of the old age: --- start quote --- One disorienting thing about getting older that nobody tells you about is how weird it feels to get a really passionate, extremely wrong lecture from a much younger person about verifiable historical events you can personally remember pretty well --- end quote ---
Izkata 2y ago
> Fascinating how two people can read the same article Two different articles describing things a year apart. Youtube was pushing only Chrome long before they presented the three options to kill IE.