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Sure it is. They’ve done crap like make firefox or safari run hot on other Google properties in the past. Is it incompetence or sabotage? Who knows. The fir
by hedora 1y ago
Sure it is. They’ve done crap like make firefox or safari run hot on other Google properties in the past.
Is it incompetence or sabotage? Who knows. The first rule of sabotage is to be indistinguishable from incompetence.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184
- crazygringo 1y agoIncompetence is by definition not intentional, and sabotage is the action of a rogue employee, not corporate strategy. A corporation can't intentionally sabotage itself, by definition.
- kevin_thibedeau 1y agoThey're sabotaging non-Chrome browsers to drive people toward their platform with the strategically weakened extension API.
- crazygringo 1y agoI don't think that has any connection to the subject under discussion, which is about whether YouTube CPU performance would lead people to turn off adblockers. Not about getting people to switch to Chrome.
- Shared404 1y agoI believe their point is that people switching to Chrome _is_ turning off their adblocker.
- crazygringo 1y agoWhy would it? uBlock Origin Lite blocks ads on YouTube just fine on Chrome.
- kevin_thibedeau 1y agoDo I hear boiling water?