Why don’t you think the person who made that post is knowledgeable? His name is Joshua Bakita, he was doing software engineering as an intern at Microsoft at the time. Google has since denied the allegations claiming it was entirely human error on their part.Deep Purple wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2019 3:12 amI said someone more knowledgeable, not someone posting a hacker conspiracy theory from a different forum.v1o wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2019 2:31 amNope, the reason they moved from Edge to Chrome is because Google kept deliberately changing code in their sites so that other layout engines would perform worse on benchmarks. Microsoft’s engineers got fed up with this and decided it was better to switch to what Google uses.Deep Purple wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2019 11:21 pmSomeone more knowledgeable correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the reason they're doing this is because they have decided to replace their own web engine in Edge with the one from Chrome, and the main driver for this is that they can't fix a lot of the web incompatibilities with Edge due to how tightly they tied its engine to Windows.v1o wrote:You’re talking about the old Microsoft. The Microsoft of today with the new CEO is embracing open standards and open source development. They’ve been contributing to the Chrome browser engine
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697824
This is Google’s response “YouTube does not add code designed to defeat optimizations in other browsers, and works quickly to fix bugs when they’re discovered,”
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/19/181 ... ern-claims