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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

Speed - https://youtu.be/FaNpWJY9SEs

Stability - https://youtu.be/GZRZcKEtHzo

Security - https://youtu.be/ekeRDKxQe1g

Edit: cleaned up the links

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Huh, watching this in current year, the "crashed tabs won't crash your browser" one feels like an oddly technical detail to include in a commercial. I guess I'm just so used to it now that it's hard for me to imagine that web browsers weren't always as reliable as they are now.

Also, look, I appreciate your comment, but could you please at least remove the ?si= tracking nonsense from your youtube links?

For everyone else, here are nvidious links:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=FaNpWJY9SEs
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=GZRZcKEtHzo
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ekeRDKxQe1g

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

People forget but when chrome first came out it was extremely ahead of the competition.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd also like to add, to whomever it may concern, that you can find a userscript to automatically convert youtube links into invidious links, among other things, here.

There's a couple others made by the same guy you may be interested in, like a basic link tracker remover

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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