I think we need all support we can get to fight Google on this, so I welcome Brave here actually.
Sorry for linking to idiotic Twitter, couldn’t find another link.
I think we need all support we can get to fight Google on this, so I welcome Brave here actually.
Sorry for linking to idiotic Twitter, couldn’t find another link.
Chromium is open source. Brave can just fork it.
“Just” fork it. Right.
It’s a massive undertaking to maintain a fork of something that large and continue pulling in patches of later developments.
Did you read the tweet from Brendan Eich linked in the OP? According to him, Brave already is a fork, and he provides a link to a (surprisingly) extensive list of things that are removed / disabled from chromium on their browser.
This is correct - any “Chromium-based” browser is literally a fork unless it’s completely unchanged from upstream (even rebranding and changing the logo and name would require maintaining a fork).
“Don’t like it? Just fork it!” is the software equivalent of “Are you sad? Just be happy!”
What do you mean Brave “can” fork it? It’s already a fork.
Yes, and Brave employs software developers that do this sort of thing as a primary task of their job.