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Is Google Locking Down Chrome to Resist the Rise of Chromium Based Browsers? (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The inherent problem with creating a new browser/platform is getting people to create addons/extensions for it.

If you don’t think Google could do this, think again. Google has an iron grip on the Chromium project.

From the beginning of its time with Google, Android was touted as THE open-source phone operating system. The Android Open Source Project was used by several projects to create their own version of Android.

Then at a certain point, Google introduced an app called Google Play Services. This app is not open source and contains all of the stuff you need to access Google’s services.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Pale Moon deserves more attention. Also, Gemini for the win

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

Pale Moon's developers threw a tantrum when OpenBSD devs did, uh, something? that violated their branding policies. That's not very FOSS of them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Pale Moon also blocked the "Ad Nauseum" browser extension. I have no idea if this was ever undone because I stopped paying attention to Pale Moon at this point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah, I saw that. I don't understand their argument that you wasting ad payer's money on fake clicks? who fucking cares? ads shouldn't exist

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Amazing. I didn't think my opinion of them could sink lower, and yet...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago

Yup, they are pedantic as fuck sometimes. they mean well though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

UXP devs are painful interacting with people but they had already set option to this and the OpenBSD maintainer didn't care.

The branding is only added using a build flag and not by default and using it you ensure the browser is compiled as desired by the devs in a way they wouldn't forbid you for distributing I with the branding.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Even if the OpenBSD devs were in the wrong, that sort of attitude ensures I want nothing to do with the Palemoon devs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

And that is not taking into account the redistribution terms.