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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by vel0city on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @09:39AM (#35802238)
Google did user agent detection and would actively redirect Windows Phone users to degraded experience versions of things like YouTube and Maps even if the full versions would work fine.
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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by manuelabeledo on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @11:21AM (#35803463)
> ... even if the full versions would work fine

That's quite a statement, given that Internet Explorer didn't support WebGL, nor rich HTML5 video reproduction, until 2014 [0]. They are needed for the full versions of Google Maps and YouTube, respectively.

Microsoft did create a YouTube app, but it filtered out video ads, which didn't sit quite well with Google [1]

It looks to me that the pain was self inflicted.

[0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/windows-phone-8-1-fe...

[1] http://allaboutwindowsphone.com/features/item/24422_Thestate...

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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by vel0city on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @12:05PM (#35804068)
I'm speaking from my own experiences. Proxying the requests to rewrite the user agent, the full mobile version of YouTube and Maps worked properly. Without rewriting the user agent I would be redirected to the minimal versions of the websites which had poor experiences.
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