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by indymike 1050 days ago
> I wouldn't diminish that work by refering to it as just a reskin, but it's also not what I have in mind when I hear about something being forked.

If the goal is to maintain compatibility with what you've forked, there are not a lot of other ways to do what Brave is doing... when you do the classic fork, the code tends to diverge and compatibility decays.

> I also think of Chrome as a customised Chromium, not a fork of Chromium.

I've started viewing Chromium based browsers as distributions instead of forks.