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- Aggressive marketing of platform defaults, such as Edge on Windows

- Aggressive misuse of incompatibilities, such as video calling for Chrome and Edge (e.g. Teams)

- Loss of websites optimizing for standards and instead optimizing for the monopolist (Chrome). Same as with IE.

Also: people buy a new computer, check out the browser shipping with it and find it acceptable.

I would guess many users whose niece/nephew/grandma installed Firefox for them on their old computer won’t even know they switched products.

you gotta admit the ads are catchy... "there's no place like Chrome"

I haven't seen this (though I'm not in an anglophone country) - it's def catchy, where have you seen/heard it?

on the side of a bus stop of all places in Philadelphia.

Ah cool thanks, you also read my mind and answered the question I meant to ask - whether it was a physical ad or just a digital one :D That's mad, you'd think Chrome is so ubiquitous, and Google ads themselves so popular, that they wouldn't need to shell out money on this kind of IRL ads.

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