> This is not really evidence-based reasoning, it’s just “I can imagine something evil that Google might do.”

Please read Mozilla's story on how Google sabotaged them: https://archive.is/tgIH9

Oh. And they very literally killed Internet Explorer: https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6

Oh. And Google's mobile apps always conveniently forget the setting of "always use system browser and never ask me", and will keep asking you to open with "chrome", "google", or "system browser".

Oh and...

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hylaride 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Oh. And they very literally killed Internet Explorer

I disagree with this. Firstly, in this article they talk about how they "killed" IE6 in favour of later versions of IE, but MS ultimately killed IE with neglect until it was far too late.

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chillfox 4 days ago | parent [-]

Microsoft might have been neglecting IE, but Google was Definitly playing games with IE, constantly breaking video acceleration on YouTube in IE in any way they could. They were literally introducing invisible elements overlapping the video for no other reason than to break IE.

	▲	jcattle 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		And web developers everywhere thanked them for killing IE6

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skybrian 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

How well do Gmail and Google Docs work on Firefox today?

	▲	71bw 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Effortlessly, at least with uBO installed.