• unalivejoy@lemm.ee
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          9 months ago

          But Chrome, the actual application you download (as well as several forks), is closed source.

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              But that’s not the real issue. The issue is that any Chromium-based browser – open source or not – helps Google maintain hegemony over web standards. Even if makers of other Chromium-based browsers try to maintain a fork of the rendering engine, they’ll be perpetually playing catch-up removing user-hostile misfeatures because Google controls the upstream branch.

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          Google still has control over Chromium. Manifest v3 is a Chromium thing, not a Chrome thing. All forks of Chromium will get it and none of the browsers using Chromium as a base has moved to fork and maintain their own version of Chromium.

          This means that Google effectively has a monopoly over all browsers that aren’t WebKit or Gecko based, which is a tiny portion of all browsers. Leading to Google deciding how people access the internet. It’s already worrying that Google is the internet for a lot of people, the fact that they can do more or less anything with Chromium means that they can do whatever they want with the web standard.

          That should be a major concern for everyone. Chromium needs to be taken away from Google.

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            9 months ago

            all browsers that aren’t WebKit or Gecko

            I don’t get this part. Are all engines other than those 2, based on Chromium?

            Perhaps you are forgetting Ze great Konqueror ?

            Because it has always been KHTML.

            There’s a meme for that. Check it out

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              I think Konquerer is no longer actively maintained.

              Fun fact (which you may already know) the two most popular browser engines today are based on KHTML)

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      Yeah I think so.

      Their quest for a revenue stream is leading them down a dark path imo.

      I mean I get that they need money. I don’t really have a solution. I just feel very uneasy about where this is headed.