Any source that YouTube is the reason that Edge switched to chromium?
I’m betting it’s just cheaper and easier than making their own engine.
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dgmib@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not defending Microsoft… but if we’re going to go after a tech company for leveraging their other assets to give themselves an unfair advantage can we also go after Google?
In the first releases of Edge, Microsoft tried to build a new web browser from scratch to compete with Google Chrome. By google kept changing YouTube’s code so that videos would playback janky on Edge. Microsoft eventually gave up trying to fix for YouTubes ongoing changes and now Edge is based on Chromium (the same open source web browser maintained by Google, that chrome os built on). Google leveraged YouTube to prevent completion from Edge.
And now Google is blocking ad blocking extensions so that users are forced to see more google ads in their browser.
Microsoft’s has leveraged their unfair advantage to get a little over 5% market share.
Google’s leveraged their unfair advantage to get 66% of the market.
Both companies need a hard smack down, but I want to see Google taken down too.
lud@lemm.ee 1 month ago
dgmib@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They’re was never any evidence of google’s wrongdoing, the accusation came from former MS edge developers:
developer-tech.com/…/edge-developer-google-youtub…
Officially Google denied it:
theverge.com/…/google-youtube-microsoft-edge-inte…
You may be right, this could have been MS couldn’t make a better browser and pulled the plug, and the devs just blamed google.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Old Edge was a better browser
more responsive/lower overhead
Demdaru@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Please, please do act on google too. Didn’t knew about YT thing, but god I loved Spartan Edge. It was soo…resource unintensive. It…simply did it job, was quick, low resource, looked good… :( I switched to it from chrome and then it became chrome.
yikerman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
YT does a lot of sneaky sneaky stuff. My Firefox constantly lagged on YT pages until one day I installed UserAgent-Switcher and pretended I was a Chrome. The lag went away.
And no it doesn’t work now.