They can, but their very existence increases the Chromium engine’s market share and therefore Google’s control of the web, allowing them to do stuff like this. Once this is implemented in Chrome then these browsers will just become “Chrome but it can’t play netflix/access bank websites/etc” or whatever.
Brave calls itself a fork, which I suppose if its truly a fork, they are cherrypicking patches they can use from the chromium base, rather than recompiling with their own patch set on top
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Most people don’t give a shit about these things. It might actually decrease if Netflix just tells people to install Chrome to watch Stranger Things
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I don’t care about Manifest V3. I care about ublock origin.
When that stops working, then I’ll swap.
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No, not yet. Existing extensions that use manifest V2 are still supported.
Aren’t Vivaldi and Brave downstream of chromium though 🤔
Vivaldi and Brave can modify Chromium to disable this feature. Chromium is open source after all.
They can, but their very existence increases the Chromium engine’s market share and therefore Google’s control of the web, allowing them to do stuff like this. Once this is implemented in Chrome then these browsers will just become “Chrome but it can’t play netflix/access bank websites/etc” or whatever.
Brave calls itself a fork, which I suppose if its truly a fork, they are cherrypicking patches they can use from the chromium base, rather than recompiling with their own patch set on top