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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by Maxatar on Monday August 05, 2024 @05:44PM (#41165912)
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!

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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by troupo on Monday August 05, 2024 @05:57PM (#41166001)
> 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

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:

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Re:Google Loses DOJ Antitrust Suit Over Search by Izkata on Friday August 09, 2024 @10:34AM (#41202243)
> 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.

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