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cogman10yesterday at 10:55 PM2 repliesview on HN

We, no joke, ultimately were able to drop our support for IE6->8 because of the youtube "we are dropping support for IE" banner. We spun it to our bosses as "If google is doing this, we should be able to."


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FridayoLearytoday at 12:57 AM

Some time ago there was a post here about it. The guy claimed he and a few other fed up devs made that banner on their own initiative. The whole thing was a huge bluff because at the time google had no such plan but it gained so much momentum that they went ahead with it eventually.

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fragmedetoday at 1:03 AM

Which, if you haven't read it before, the story of how they did that is worth the read.

https://blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6