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[–] suslord@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Me too, since their adblock is natively implemented it won't be affected by manifest V3.

[–] 00@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Even if its not affected by manifest V3 changes directly, we shouldnt forget what V3 means. It shows the direction that Google wants to take Chromium into, unsurprisingly. Google is an Ad company, making a browser that has ad-blocking or has forks (i.e. Brave) that focus on ad-blocking is against its very core goal. Manifest V3 could just be the start. We dont know what changes they have in mind that could be impossible to evade for comparatively small projects like Brave. Imagine important and big features and security updates shipped with spyware so deeply integrated that only a giant company like Google could implement it while making it impossible for any smaller company like Brave to divide. Brave would be dead over night.

[–] carotte@mastodon.social 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

@00 @Monologue @DoctorForesight @suslord Would it be feasible for Google to close the source of Chromium and/or Blink or do they have licenses that prevent it?

[–] owf@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Would it be feasible for Google to close the source of Chromium

They can switch to a new licence, but it would only apply to future contributions, not what already exists. So if they did that, the result would be multiple forks. MS would need to maintain their own fork for Edge.

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