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by reidrac 1029 days ago
I commuted by train between 2010 and 2011 in England, and there were big billboard ads of Google Chrome.

Not sure what effect these have, but I wonder how many people don't know about Firefox at all.

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Yeah, they have the eff you money to throw around. They sponsor the McLaren F1 team as one of the primary sponsors,

https://www.mclaren.com/racing/partners/chrome/

And F1 gets hundreds of millions of viewers each year.

I remember reading, at that time, that the ad budget for Chrome in London alone was more than the entire budget of Mozilla.
I vaguely remember even seeing Chrome distributed as bundleware.