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There's already an independent Europe based browser... Vivaldi.

• marginalia_nu 2y ago
  Vivaldi is just a chromium wrapper as far as I understand.
  • dismalaf 2y ago
    It's Chromium with the Google bits ripped out, Vivaldi has their own sign in/sync functionality, built in ad blocker, and custom UI. It's based on Chromium but has quite a bit different going on, as much as Brave or Edge.
    • tredre3 2y ago
      But unlike Brave and Edge, Vivaldi isn't open-source.
      • dismalaf 2y ago
        https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser-open-source/ https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/why-isnt-vivaldi-browser... They basically just want to keep the copyright to their UI. You can see the source but they don't want anyone to rip off their UI. And let's be real, every browser (even Firefox) has closed source server side code. Also, the comment I initially responded to was about why isn't there a European browser not controlled by "big tech"... Vivaldi is an independent company in Europe making a browser.
        • TheDong 2y ago
          > And let's be real, every browser (even Firefox) has closed source server side code. What is Firefox's? Accounts and Sync are both open source, and I'm struggling to think of anything else i.e. https://github.com/mozilla/fxa https://github.com/mozilla/fxa
• bladeee 2y ago
  But it depends on the Blink engine.
  • dismalaf 2y ago
    So? Blink is a fork of WebKit which was a fork of KDE's web engine. It's all open source anyway. The point isn't that the code must be unique, only that it's not dependent on a large US tech firm. They might benefit from Chromium development but the option to hard fork is always there.
    • Kwpolska 2y ago
      Blink is a Google project, primarily maintained by Google employees.