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It's not an actual fork, by the way. Them saying so doesn't make it so. It uses chromium as a base and applies quite a lot of patches. Otherwise every chromium
by Novosell 3y ago
It's not an actual fork, by the way. Them saying so doesn't make it so. It uses chromium as a base and applies quite a lot of patches. Otherwise every chromium based browser is a fork, despite all pulling in more or less all upstream patches?
- gowld 3y agoOK it's a branch.
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- mrguyorama 3y agoMore importantly: being a fork or not doesn't matter! As long as the Brave team is not able to write their own browser engine that could compete with chromium, they are stuck with whatever development goes into chromium. "Oh it's just patches and things", but it won't be forever, and we WILL see work go into chromium that is deep enough to be difficult to untangle and subtly designed to to force you into whatever path google wants. There will be a day where Brave is unable to degoogle chromium to a useful point. Participating in a chromium browser is only helping google, and there's no way around that.
- Karunamon 3y ago… Taking an upstream project, and then applying your own patches to it, along with a commitment to not ship anti-user changes (like manifest V3) is a fork by any objective definition.
- Novosell 3y agoI find nothing saying they didn't implement manifest V3. The only info I can find from them is that their own adblocker, which isn't an extension, will continue to work[0] and that, for example, ublock will continue to work as long as google doesn't remove manifest v2 support.[0] Seems odd to me that what Google does to manifest V2 matters at all to Brave, if Brave is indeed a fork and not just chromium with a skin. 0: https://twitter.com/brave/status/1574822799700541446 https://twitter.com/brave/status/1574822799700541446 1: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1534893414579249152 https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1534893414579249152