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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by renzev@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] verysoft@kbin.social 60 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Completely ignoring Chrome's success is off the back of it being advertised on the world's most popular website since it's release, then yeah.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

And it being installed with unrelated software as crapware, and Google adopting Microsoft's "Youtube isn't done until Firefox doesn't run"...

[–] ares35@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

and they advertised it on tv pretty heavily, too.

[–] takeda@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I love Opera's response to some of the idiotic speed test ads: https://youtu.be/zaT7thTxyq8

This was before Opera dropped their own engine and became just another Chrome skin unfortunately.

For those who missed the original Chrome ads, here they are: https://youtu.be/nCgQDjiotG0

[–] dublued@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I really miss the old Opera. Dropped it immediately when they went with Chrome.

[–] TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Wait, what?

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They had some iconic ads back in the day. Some examples:

Edit: cleaned up the links

[–] Alto@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

Their chrome and play store ads will forever be seared in my brain.