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| ▲ | kryptiskt 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| And you can't do what Google doesn't want you to do. That's a nice ad blocker you have there, shame if we removed support for it. |
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| ▲ | armadyl 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | “The benefit of open source is that anyone can fork and modify the code!” Yet somehow this argument seems to evaporate since people’s brains short circuit the moment they see the name Google. The community can always fork and maintain a separate version of Chromium if necessary. Or does this concept only not apply to Chromium? | |
| ▲ | charcircuit 29 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Brave literally ads an ad blocker into the browser itself. When you fork software you can do whatever you want to it. |
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| ▲ | samus 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Except one does since Google is the primary maintainer. Anyway, work on other browser engines is not duplicated or wasted. |
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| ▲ | charcircuit 21 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It's easier maintaining a fork of Blink than an entirely different engine. Google being the primary maintainer doesn't mean that browsers can't make large forks. >work on other browser engines is not duplicated or wasted. How is having N engine developers implement some new addition to the EMCAScript or CSS standard for each of their engines not duplicated work? |
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