For those, who is too lazy to open a link: many years ago YouTube stuff announced that their service will not support Internet Explorer 6 so people have to update it at least to IE 8.
It is not a secret taht Google is willing to get a complete dominance over the entire internet but who da fuck cares about the internet explorer? This is a browser, that was made just for downloading the other browsers. Anyone really cares about it?
That project was killed by Microsoft themselves when they released Edge. And after not too long, they also killed their own "new" rendering engine in Edge as well, switching to the same one used in Chromium, so Edge too, is just another Chrome now.
A couple of decades ago, back when i still made the mistake of using Microsoft products, i remember avoiding Internet Explorer EVEN to download another browser, for that i used the bsd ftp client that Microsoft used to bundle with windows, to download a decent browser from a command line console, as God intended.
Google is, in a way, repeating what used to be Microsoft practices, now on the internet. If their web services behave poorly with other non Chromium based browsers, this should indicate what their intention is.
Unfortunately most people seem to be bought to the idea that Chromium based browsers (it not outright Chrome itself) is "the best" (it isn't).
Its funny how people worried about
centralization in Bitcoin mining, or in altcoins, don't pay attention to centralization of web browser or operating system. Are you still using Chrome? and Windows?
Did you even notice when all the youtube downloaders were removed and banned from the "chrome web store"? What else is to come? Keep giving them power by your voluntary use of their products, and eventually (when its too late) you will find out...