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by troupo 309 days ago
> contradiction to apply the competitive logic of proprietary platforms to fundamental OSS infrastructure.

Chromium is controlled and developed by Google. And it's dangerous to have fundamental infrastructure in the hands of one company. Here's a reminder what they did with Android: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-development-...
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Barrin92 309 days ago
They can do nothing to Android because as the article points out Samsung or the entirety of China and the billions of other people in the world will just work on a fork and that will become consensus. If you have one company acting as the dominant player in an open source project, the fact that everyone else can walk away puts an implicit limit on what they can do.

To literally take Chromium as an example. Look at Google's manifest v3 changes. Brave and all the other chromium based browsers just put their own ad blocking shim on top and they're fine.

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troupo 309 days ago
> billions of other people in the world will just work on a fork and that will become consensus.

Yes, yes, billions of people will work on the fork.

> To literally take Chromium as an example. Look at Google's manifest v3 changes.

That literally changed nothing in Chrome dominance.

> Brave and all the other chromium based browsers just put their own ad blocking shim on top and they're fine.

You mean: they literally just slap a skin on top of a Google-developed project, do no actual browser development of their own (do they even participate in web standards?), have vanishingly few users and are likely hemorrhaging money?

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