Ex-Google employee reveals how they plotted to kill Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6

A former Google employee has revealed how a group of engineers plotted to kill Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 on its YouTube platform nearly 10 years ago.

According to a report in The Verge on Saturday, YouTube in 2009 started displaying a banner to Internet Explorer 6 users, warning that support for Microsoft’s browser would be “phasing out” soon.

Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006.

Frustrated by supporting the aging browser, “we began collectively fantasizing about how we could exact our revenge on IE6”, revealed Chris Zacharias, a former Google and YouTube engineer.