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Brave continues to ship Manifest v2. Technically Brave is a fork of Chromium for this reason, albeit one that hews close to upstream. The reason why Brave had t
by pcwalton 3y ago
Brave continues to ship Manifest v2. Technically Brave is a fork of Chromium for this reason, albeit one that hews close to upstream. The reason why Brave had to fork Chromium is that, again, Google completely controls Chromium's development, so they had no choice. Google couldn't care less what Brave thinks if Brave's goals run counter to their own business motivations.
- hollerith 3y ago>Brave continues to ship Manifest v2 Pardon my ignorance, then. Your "ultimately Google got its way" led me to conclude that Brave must have indicated that it will stop shipping v2. Let me summarize. Google completely controls Chrome's development, but at least 2 organizations (Microsoft and Brave) seem willing to maintain their own forks of things in Chromium even if Google abandons those things. Although it doesn't care about empowering users to avoid ads and consequently doesn't care about Manifest v2 (especially since v2 is a big source of malware and spyware) Microsoft does care a lot about Electron, and would gladly maintain its own fork of any code files necessary for Electron if Google decides it no longer wants those code files in new versions of Chromium. Do you agree with that summary?