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I guess it's the pretty colors? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 112 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It is pretty ingenious (and evil) the way they made the Chromium logo look like the shitty off-brand diet version of Chrome.

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Completely ignoring Chrome's success is off the back of it being advertised on the world's most popular website since it's release, then yeah.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    and they advertised it on tv pretty heavily, too.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I love Opera's response to some of the idiotic speed test ads: https://youtu.be/zaT7thTxyq8

    This was before Opera dropped their own engine and became just another Chrome skin unfortunately.

    For those who missed the original Chrome ads, here they are: https://youtu.be/nCgQDjiotG0

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I can't figure out what Opera's deal is now, with that weird video enhancement thing. Lucid, or whatever it's called.

    ABSOLUTELY NOBODY asked for in-browser video sharpening.

    How much development time and expertise does that kind of thing take, anyway? Whatever the fuck Lucid Video actually does, it must have taken thousands of person-hours to develop, of which many hundreds were contributed by people with Masters-degree levels of education and experience, in image processing.

    Why, in the name of all that is good and holy in this misbegotten, shit-crusted world would they spend all that effort on that shit, INSTEAD OF MAKING THEIR OWN BROWSER ENGINE AGAIN???

    That would HAVE to be easier, right? Maybe it would be pretty hard, given the commitment you'd have to make, in order to be absolutely sure you were making a product that didn't have huge security holes. But I'm just saying, NOBODY wanted whatever this Lucid Video thing is. At least just save all the effort of doing that, by just...not doing it.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Nobody:

    Opera: Hey kids, do you want to install a GAMING browser?!

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago

    Its such a horrendously cheesy marketing gimmick, and people still somehow fall for it. Like sure, it has some actual features like ram limiter or whatever, but when is that every necessary? I keep around a hundred tabs open across two different browsers (yeah, I'm a weirdo like that) on my 12 year old thinkpad and it works fine, surely a GAMING computer running any other browser would be able to keep up without having to set artificial resource limits?

    Also, did you know that Opera has an official vtuber? Because apparently that's also what all the cool kids are into these days

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    opera isn't opera anymore, it's chinese-owned now (since 2016). if you want a browser by one of the original founders of the 'old' opera, look at vivaldi... although it, too, is chromium-based.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Wait, what?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    They had some iconic ads back in the day. Some examples:

    Speed - https://youtu.be/FaNpWJY9SEs

    Stability - https://youtu.be/GZRZcKEtHzo

    Security - https://youtu.be/ekeRDKxQe1g

    Edit: cleaned up the links

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Huh, watching this in current year, the "crashed tabs won't crash your browser" one feels like an oddly technical detail to include in a commercial. I guess I'm just so used to it now that it's hard for me to imagine that web browsers weren't always as reliable as they are now.

    Also, look, I appreciate your comment, but could you please at least remove the ?si= tracking nonsense from your youtube links?

    For everyone else, here are nvidious links:
    https://yewtu.be/watch?v=FaNpWJY9SEs
    https://yewtu.be/watch?v=GZRZcKEtHzo
    https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ekeRDKxQe1g

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'd also like to add, to whomever it may concern, that you can find a userscript to automatically convert youtube links into invidious links, among other things, here.

    There's a couple others made by the same guy you may be interested in, like a basic link tracker remover

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    I wonder if chromium having the blue colors is what set the precedent for almost every other privacy-conscious browser to have a blue logo (Waterfox, GNU Icecat, palemoon, librewolf...)

    EDIT on second though probably not, blue just seems like a good color for internet-related applications. Safari, edge, and internet explorer are also blue!

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    For years I've seen blue as a social media color and stayed away. A beautiful peaceful color ruined by Facebook and its ilk

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    And I hate that it's everywhere. Be more colourful, people!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The color palette of fortune 100 companies seem to be, in order of frequency: Blue, Red, and White (not counting negative space).

    I think that there was some study that found that these colors are the most impactful or some shit.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago

    I remember hearing that in pokemon go, you could choose to join one of three teams or whatever (blue, yellow, and red). And the blue one was by far the most popular one, despite there being no difference besides color.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    As others already said, Chromium definitely isn't the first or only one to use a blue logo. There is a theory that colours influence the way we perceive a brand, for example this article explains that idea.

    Blue is supposed to convey trustworthiness and maturity. A lot of companies like that, so you tend to see a lot of blue.

    You may also be experiencing the frequency illusion. If you specifically noticed the blue in Chromium's logo, it would make sense that you suddenly started noticing the blue in other logos as well!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I feel like just more app icons in general are blue than any other color. Off the top of my head in addition to what you mentioned I have shazam, venmo, signal, steam, blink, reolink, dropbox, steam, paypal, discord, max, disney plus. And that's not even counting one's that are majority white but with blue as the only color. I think it's just the most popular design choice or maybe there's some sinister market research somewhere that shows people use/spend more on apps that have blue icons.

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