• ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Google does not and cannot have any control over any Chromium forks

    That is not true. I remember several chromium-based browser developers saying for several changes made by google to chromium that they can’t afford the maintenance burden to reverse it.

    One instance of that happening is switching the addon framework to manifest v3, which severely degrades the functionality of browser firewalls, like uBlock Origin, by restricting (for “security reasons”, apparently) the amount of network filters they can apply (and maybe with other changes too, I don’t remember it exactly).

    But there were also other instances of this happening, which I don’t remember right now. Maybe also when they released the first version with FLoC.

    And then I think these 2 (anti)features (even any of them alone) also qualify for invasions of privacy, and they are present in most of the chromium based browsers.