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Could someone explain in simple terms, what’s so tricky about spinning off a v2-compatible chromium fork?
by wklm 2y ago
Could someone explain in simple terms, what’s so tricky about spinning off a v2-compatible chromium fork?
- Jyaif 2y agoForget about forking, just offering a build of Chromium for a single platform and architecture that gets the security updates in time is a lot of work.
- wruza 2y agoPeople who remove v2, own ad networks, develop chrome and write standards are the same people. It’s new age mafia, cancer of the internet and they do everything for you to not be able to just spin off a fork.
- efilife 2y agoSo what would they do?
- wruza 2y agoAlready done: used lying tactics to make their browser and ad networks dominate, bloated the standard to make browser development unsustainable. Right now: rooting out the entire possibility of running full adblock-capable extensions from the sources, so that even chrome-based browsers could not support it back.
- HDThoreaun 2y agoChromium is maintained by the largest ad company in the world.
- kobalsky 2y agogoogle can weaponize structural changes to make any v2 maintainer's life a living hell, the code base is massive.
- Havoc 2y agoIt’ll drift apart over time and become ever harder to track the upstream without engineering effort