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The end of uBlock Origin in Chrome is now weeks away, not months (www.techspot.com)
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[–] 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This teaches us that being open source is not enough. If it's managed by big tech, it's still not good. Technically, anyone can take the source and make a fork, but in practice, it's rarely viable for smaller groups to take a big project and start maintaining it. The same applies to android

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Excellent point. The way a project is governed should always be a consideration when evaluating software, especially for large and complex projects like a web browser that can't easily be forked.

    In the case of chromium, basically all the main developers are Google employees ... so it's no surprise there hasn't been a viable fork.

    I really wish we had something like the "linux kernel" of web browsers...

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