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1. the_ot+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-01-24 15:38:56
Google already does this. G-suite is a Trojan horse for their browser, which is a Trojan horse for their advertising engine. They'll disable suite features, or make it mysteriously not run in your "outdated" browser. You'll have to move to something Google approved just to be able to collaborate with your team, or your friends.

> You can't fight or justify anti competitive behaviour with anti competitive behaviour back.

The way it seems to me, for this case, is that those two "anti-"s cancel out and leave you with direct competition?

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2. sebzim+72[view] [source] 2023-01-24 15:46:21
>>the_ot+(OP)
>They'll disable suite features, or make it mysteriously not run in your "outdated" browser.

Can you give an example of a G-suite (or any google product) feature that does not work in Firefox?

replies(3): >>Androi+eA >>error5+aY >>acdha+fT1
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3. Androi+eA[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-01-24 17:47:18
>>sebzim+72
While being 3 years old, this video [1] is a good example of some of the behavior Google uses when they find out you're not using Chrome.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELCq63652ig

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4. error5+aY[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-01-24 19:16:45
>>sebzim+72
TBH most everything works fine for me (unless I just don't know what I'm missing), but there is a very clear and frustrating gap with Meet backgrounds (blur etc.), which are artificially disabled on Firefox for dubious reasons.
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5. acdha+fT1[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-01-24 23:31:22
>>sebzim+72
Meet used to say WebRTC wasn’t working and boot you out of meetings if you used Firefox. Every other service worked perfectly, but they clearly were slacking on fixing it for at least a year before we stopped using Meet.

GCP periodically breaks their console logins for Firefox users.

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