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Fork chrome, or switch to firefox.

by chii 3y ago

pjmlp 3y ago
Fork Chrome is usually easier said than done, as proven by the "success" of most FOSS forks, besides many key features aren't even in Chromium. I am mostly a Firefox user, at least until it stays around.
- maxloh 3y ago
  Brave and Vivaldi is quite success IMO.
  - pjmlp 3y ago
    Yet another two re-inforcing Chrome dominance on the Web.
  - firecall 3y ago
    Brave is ~0.05% market share. It’s probably successful in that it’s a well known project within the tech community. And 0.05% of the global browser market is a lot of users and probably a decent business. (Are they profitable?) But outside of HN type audiences, no one has heard of it.
    - maxloh 3y ago
      It seems that they became profitable, weirdly enough, by having users opt-in to their own ads... in their ad-blocking browser [0]. [0]: https://brave.com/2021-recap/ https://brave.com/2021-recap/
maxloh 3y ago
Content blocking proxy should still work. For example, - https://github.com/barre/privaxy https://github.com/barre/privaxy - https://github.com/AdguardTeam/urlfilter https://github.com/AdguardTeam/urlfilter
- daedalus_j 3y ago
  Welcome to mandatory "secure DNS", followed by Google's automatic (and mandatory) "privacy protecting VPN" built right into chrome! They won't stop. Ever.
  - JohnFen 3y ago
    > followed by Google's automatic (and mandatory) "privacy protecting VPN" built right into chrome! Hmm... My workplace banned the use of Brave a number of weeks back because Brave started including a VPN with it. They were concerned about people using the VPN to bypass corporate security mechanisms. If Chrome did the same, I wonder if they'd ban that as well?
dun44 3y ago
You can’t really fork chrome; it would be unsustainable as an open source project. Unless you plan to keep integrating upstream changes - but then you’re still following whatever Google wants to do, you can merely delay it.

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Fork chrome, or switch to firefox.

by chii 3y ago

Fork chrome, or switch to firefox.

pjmlp 3y ago
Fork Chrome is usually easier said than done, as proven by the "success" of most FOSS forks, besides many key features aren't even in Chromium. I am mostly a Firefox user, at least until it stays around.
- maxloh 3y ago
  Brave and Vivaldi is quite success IMO.
  - pjmlp 3y ago
    Yet another two re-inforcing Chrome dominance on the Web.
  - firecall 3y ago
    Brave is ~0.05% market share. It’s probably successful in that it’s a well known project within the tech community. And 0.05% of the global browser market is a lot of users and probably a decent business. (Are they profitable?) But outside of HN type audiences, no one has heard of it.
    - maxloh 3y ago
      It seems that they became profitable, weirdly enough, by having users opt-in to their own ads... in their ad-blocking browser [0]. [0]: https://brave.com/2021-recap/ https://brave.com/2021-recap/
maxloh 3y ago
Content blocking proxy should still work. For example, - https://github.com/barre/privaxy https://github.com/barre/privaxy - https://github.com/AdguardTeam/urlfilter https://github.com/AdguardTeam/urlfilter
- daedalus_j 3y ago
  Welcome to mandatory "secure DNS", followed by Google's automatic (and mandatory) "privacy protecting VPN" built right into chrome! They won't stop. Ever.
  - JohnFen 3y ago
    > followed by Google's automatic (and mandatory) "privacy protecting VPN" built right into chrome! Hmm... My workplace banned the use of Brave a number of weeks back because Brave started including a VPN with it. They were concerned about people using the VPN to bypass corporate security mechanisms. If Chrome did the same, I wonder if they'd ban that as well?
dun44 3y ago
You can’t really fork chrome; it would be unsustainable as an open source project. Unless you plan to keep integrating upstream changes - but then you’re still following whatever Google wants to do, you can merely delay it.