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by jorvi 619 days ago
> The fact that there are a variety of companies whose browsers are under Google's control

Que?

If Google did some heinous stuff, tomorrow Microsoft would hard-fork Chromium and Brave et al would just switch their upstream to Edge.

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> Microsoft would hard-fork Chromium and Brave et al would just switch their upstream to Edge.

Doubt.

I'll believe it when I see it. Maintaining a hard fork is almost as hard as a greenfield browser like old Edge or old Opera. There are no serious competitors doing hard Chromium forks besides Apple. (Afraid to admit Firefox isn't a serious competitor anymore.)