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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by tick_tock_tick on Thursday October 10, 2024 @04:37PM (#41803316)
> Microsoft only abandoned EdgeHTML and adopted Blink because Google owned sites like YouTube were deliberately breaking in Edge.

No they abandoned EdgeHTML because it was shit. Seriously there are plenty of posts right here on hacker news about the internals of that decision. The team and product failed to deliver so badly that it got the axe.

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Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case by stephenr on Friday October 11, 2024 @12:50AM (#41806274)
> there are plenty of posts right here on hacker news about the internals of that decision

There sure are:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697824

> This is already happening. I very recently worked on the Edge team, and one of the reasons we decided to end EdgeHTML was because Google kept making changes to its sites that broke other browsers, and we couldn't keep up.

> Now while I'm not sure I'm convinced that YouTube was changed intentionally to slow Edge, many of my co-workers are quite convinced - and they're the ones who looked into it personally.

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