[asddubs]

I think google is very happy with their current model of having everyone just ship blink. It means they control what the web can and can't do not just in their own browser, but many others. None of those browsers are running hard forks

And sure, you could disable an API or this and that feature, but it means you're spending a lot of time to keep reintegrating upstream, because google changes a lot of things all the time, so you really have to pick and choose what diversions you afford yourself. you can poke around the brave repo a bit to see the devs bemoan that.