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Re:Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust laws... by versteegen on Saturday May 16, 2020 @02:46PM (#23206047)
> Want to use firefox? Gmail and youtube really will move heaven and earth to make you use chrome.

What's that meant to mean? I use firefox, and I don't even see any suggestion anywhere on any Google properties to use Chrome, though there used to be something on the front page. Certainly never seen anything in gmail.

I agree that gmail is a disaster for people running their own email servers, though.

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Re:Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust laws... by pgalvin on Saturday May 16, 2020 @02:59PM (#23206161)
Google intentionally slows or cripples many of their products on Firefox - simply changing the user agent makes them load faster and have all their normal features. See: Gmail & Google Photos on Firefox desktop (painfully slow, fixed with user agent), Google Images on Firefox Android (functionally crippled, fixed with user agent).
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