• unalivejoy
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    308 months ago

    But Chrome, the actual application you download (as well as several forks), is closed source.

    • @ichbinjasokreativ
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      -38 months ago

      Agreed. I just wanted to point out that you can have open source with a chromium based browser

      • @grue
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        258 months ago

        But that’s not the real issue. The issue is that any Chromium-based browser – open source or not – helps Google maintain hegemony over web standards. Even if makers of other Chromium-based browsers try to maintain a fork of the rendering engine, they’ll be perpetually playing catch-up removing user-hostile misfeatures because Google controls the upstream branch.