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[GoldenX]

Chrome announced that they are going to block ad-blockers in Chrome AND Chromium, so they affected Brave, Opera, (future) Edge, etc.
I'm back to good olde Firefox.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Chrome announced that they are going to block ad-blockers in Chrome AND Chromium, so they affected Brave, Opera, (future) Edge, etc.
I'm back to good olde Firefox.

There just one problem with that; Chromium is open source. And the open source community will not allow such a limitation. Now Google's in-house version, Chrome, might do what you described, but all other version made by others will be having none of it. Still, Firefox is good so go with it!

 

[GoldenX]

There just one problem with that; Chromium is open source. And the open source community will not allow such a limitation. Now Google's in-house version, Chrome, might do what you described, but all other version made by others will be having none of it. Still, Firefox is good so go with it!

Chromium is almost never audited, and every time they did it, they found a Google blob hidden somewhere.
We need a fork, now.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Chromium is almost never audited, and every time they did it, they found a Google blob hidden somewhere.
We need a fork, now.

Everyone who makes their own variant of Chromium is a literal and technical fork of the project and because of the way the code is compiled, every one of those devs would have to check for unwanted/un-needed/extra code. Most go out of their way to check for those kinds of things and remove them.

 

[GoldenX]

Everyone who makes their own variant of Chromium is a literal and technical fork of the project and because of the way the code is compiled, every one of those devs would have to check for unwanted/un-needed/extra code. Most go out of their way to check for those kinds of things and remove them.

On most projects Chromium is a dependency, they even respect the version number. That's not a proper fork.

 

[lexluthermiester]

On most projects Chromium is a dependency, they even respect the version number.

That is for compatibility and functionality reasons, the core code is still modified...

That's not a proper fork.

...and when you modify the core code it becomes a fork by definition, even if not officially.

 

[GoldenX]

That is for compatibility and functionality reasons, the core code is still modified...

...and when you modify the core code it becomes a fork by definition, even if not officially.

We still need a proper official fork, before it's impossible to audit like systemd.

 

[Candor]

Tried a few browsers years ago, Dolphin..Firefox...

Can't be bothered anymore...just use Chrome.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Can't be bothered anymore...just use Chrome.

That's just lazy that is. Look up "Iron" in the Play store. Much better than Chrome in every aspect.

 

[Candor]

Yeah read the reviews. Not interested. I rarely browse on my phone anyway.

 

[Sybaris_Caesar]

Lol. Opera Mini on mobile and Opera on PC.

Mostly for Sync purposes.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Lol. Opera Mini on mobile and Opera on PC.

Mostly for Sync purposes.

And that is where Opera shines a bit brighter than other browsers. Sure Google, Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft have sync features, but Opera's seems to be the best, from what I've seen.