It’s easy, but it’s not good for the web as a whole. The field is so complex that only a company as big as Google or Apple, or a company funded in large by Google, can even have a single seat at the table, let alone most of the seats.
Because using Chromium and Chromium-based browsers reinforces Chrome’s market share dominance which will harm comparability as more and more sites will only be tested against Chrome and in many cases refuse to serve pages to other browsers without user agent string fuckery.
It also cultivates dependence on Google for the extension ecosystem, etc
I don’t get your point, so I’m not sure what to elaborate on. Chromium source code is still controlled and gatekeept by Google, and it’s full of proprietary Google garbage ranging from the obvious to the hazardously subtle.
I see the disconnect now. You’re mistaking “open source” for 'inherently good."
Because the source code is preloaded with Google crap which infringes heavily on the privacy of end users and internet health in general, the forks either have to either maintain an increasingly complex list of patches to apply to fix what Google does to Chromium (the browser that runs two thirds of the web) or simply accept it.
It’s easy, but it’s not good for the web as a whole. The field is so complex that only a company as big as Google or Apple, or a company funded in large by Google, can even have a single seat at the table, let alone most of the seats.
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Chromium is bad for the web.
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Because using Chromium and Chromium-based browsers reinforces Chrome’s market share dominance which will harm comparability as more and more sites will only be tested against Chrome and in many cases refuse to serve pages to other browsers without user agent string fuckery.
It also cultivates dependence on Google for the extension ecosystem, etc
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I don’t get your point, so I’m not sure what to elaborate on. Chromium source code is still controlled and gatekeept by Google, and it’s full of proprietary Google garbage ranging from the obvious to the hazardously subtle.
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I see the disconnect now. You’re mistaking “open source” for 'inherently good."
Because the source code is preloaded with Google crap which infringes heavily on the privacy of end users and internet health in general, the forks either have to either maintain an increasingly complex list of patches to apply to fix what Google does to Chromium (the browser that runs two thirds of the web) or simply accept it.
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Yes, you did. In your first comment in this thread.
Your inability to grasp the problem after having it explain to you by multiple people, multiple times