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Phemisttoday at 11:46 AM1 replyview on HN

Worrying. Extrapolating a (speculative) future, this means (Google will feel) that soon the chromium base will no longer need the crowd-sourced bug hunting that is open-source. I expect Google to eventually stop working on chromium (in the open) and all current chromium-flavours will become de-facto forks of the last published version of chromium. These forks won't be equally easy to maintain given that the groups running them do not have access to the same level of subsidy as Chrome does with Gemini.


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dybbertoday at 11:59 AM

Google already controls Chrome/Chromium direction so much that you should use Firefox if you value an open web.

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