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Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window... by proactivesvcs on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:25PM (#22293542)
I am an occasional user of Maps, YouTube, Blogger and Translate. Never used Chrome, and all of these properties work just fine and have not tried to push Chrome.

I'm also using a stock Android and have never used Chrome on it. Play Store, Play Games, Find my Device, and the Google app work just fine and haven't tried to push Chrome either.

I guess I should prepend these observations with "Yet", as I'm not at all of the opinion that it'll never happen.

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Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window... by zeusk on Monday February 10, 2020 @06:04PM (#22294386)
Or you've grown immune to it, because I work on Windows and occasionally setup new VM builds to test things and I always get these banners.

What's even worse is that their CAPTCHA stuff prefers chrome/chromium users off the bat with reliability scores.

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Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window... by roca on Monday February 10, 2020 @05:59PM (#22294343)
> all of these properties work just fine and have not tried to push Chrome.

Historically Google has relentlessly advertised Chrome to Firefox users on Youtube and their main search page ... probably the most valuable advertising space on the Internet. Maybe they've cut back, for some or all users.

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Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window... by TraceWoodgrains on Monday February 10, 2020 @05:28PM (#22294106)
Have you tried using Translate for a web page recently, instead of just a couple sentences of text? Some time ago, they removed that functionality, instead instructing users to use a browser with native translation capabilities to translate pages. It's a pretty blatant push to get people over onto Chrome.
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Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window... by darren_ on Monday February 10, 2020 @06:06PM (#22294395)
No they didn't. Paste a URL and hit the icon next to it.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&tab=TT&sl=auto&...

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Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window... by TraceWoodgrains on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @01:00PM (#22300725)
Hm. It may have been as part of something temporary, but I definitely ran into that message recently. Good to see it's back.
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