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Uglyhead@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

This has been rampant for years now.

There was a massive movement years ago to get every user on Chrome. Even going so far as to replace all instances of IE with Chrome, then change the Chrome desktop icon to the IE icon.

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0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Are you alluding to Edge becoming a chromium fork? Or did some orgs really do this weird icon trickery?

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- Uglyhead@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Not orgs,…exactly.
  
  There was a huge push by well, a lot of IT and tech based people to get behind and push promotion of Chrome over Firefox and IE. FF had its issues at the time and seemingly everyone trusted Google to no end (ashamedly myself included).
  
  I’m gonna say this happened ~2010 or so.
  
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