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Re:Browsers by Manishearth on Monday December 17, 2018 @03:33PM (#18701903)
Chrome and Chromium share the same engine, and for this stuff it is the engine that matters.
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Re:Browsers by WorldMaker on Monday December 17, 2018 @06:03PM (#18703087)
For now, at least. AOSP and Android "share the same engine", supposedly, but API footprint standardized in AOSP is getting drastically distanced from the API footprint moved behind Google Play Services and other proprietary bulkheads. The number of APKs that run on non-Google Play enabled AOSP builds has dwindled fast in the last few years. (Just ask Amazon.)

What's to stop "YouTube needs Genuine Chrome™ with Google Play® Support Services Installed"?

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Re:Browsers by bonesss on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @04:27AM (#18705440)
What's to stop that now?

They could throw up a check and have "Youtube requires Chrome XX.X with the Evil-DRM plugin enabled" live whenever they want. It's the relevant market forces and ecosystem.

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