[armitron]

I really don't understand this line of reasoning unless you're shilling for Google.

"Nothing stop you from using..."

"Chromium is open source..."

"Nothing stop Mozilla and Apple.."

There is a behemoth in the room that makes all these arguments NULL and VOID. It's called Google and it's ruling its domain with an iron fist. We saw what these sort of arguments lead to in practice, the recent ad-blocking debacle being the icing on the cake. Open source means nothing if you have a colossal gate keeper that is not only in full control but has the power to _dictate future evolution_. All Open Source provides in this case, is an easy excuse, a shield to deflect criticism and this is exactly what you're doing here.

Did we really learn nothing from Microsoft's past that we are willing to overlook an entity that's orders of magnitude more powerful?