• roon@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Aren’t Vivaldi and Brave downstream of chromium though 🤔

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      1 year ago

      Vivaldi and Brave can modify Chromium to disable this feature. Chromium is open source after all.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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        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