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0 pointssoraminazuki1y ago0 comments

Advocating for the entire browser landscape to be taken over by Chromium is definitely not a middle ground. It's letting the world's largest ad company be the dictator of the web.

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nijave1y ago

I never advocated for that. There's nothing saying a fork has to be 100% in sync with upstream and can cherry-pick what parts it wants to keep. Besides that, there's other Blink-based browsers which are very similar but another level removed from Google

Using a fork to work around Google marking addons are malicious seems like a middle ground between "living with ads" and "using a whole new browser the author has political issues with"

barotalomey1y ago

Suggesting we all stay on Chrome forks is indeed advocating for Chrome when options exist.

nijave1y ago

I see I said "Chrome" in the original post but the other poster replied with "Chromium". I intended "Chromium forks and derivatives"

Maybe you consider those just as bad, though

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soraminazukiOP1y ago

I don't see the difference. Unless the forks become completely independent, Google will have an outsized influence over them. If Firefox goes down without a replacement independent of Chromium, it'll be the end of the open web.

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nijave1y ago

Using a fork to work around Google marking addons are malicious seems like a middle ground between "living with ads" and "using a whole new browser the author has political issues with"

barotalomey1y ago

Suggesting we all stay on Chrome forks is indeed advocating for Chrome when options exist.

nijave1y ago

I see I said "Chrome" in the original post but the other poster replied with "Chromium". I intended "Chromium forks and derivatives"

Maybe you consider those just as bad, though

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soraminazukiOP1y ago

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