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by rplnt 977 days ago
Google has been doing this in search as well. Not sure where the comedy is.

On top of that they peddled their browser in all their products (gmail, youtube, maps, docs, ...), claiming better and faster experience, more features. Sometimes they had to check user agent to deliver worse experience to make that claim truthful.

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Just because another quasi-monopolist does it, doesn't make it equally good or acceptable.
It's equally bad. I never implied otgerwise. It's expected too, not comical.
Do you have a screenshot of "this"? Is it Google telling a user searching for Firefox (or another browser), specifically for that search, that they're using Chrome already?
I don't doubt that Google does the same thing, they are just as complicit in this duopoly as Microsoft.