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Re:Google’s Chrome Becomes Web ‘Gatekeeper’ and Rivals Complain by skybrian on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @11:38AM (#20041423)
Microsoft has the resources to fork Chromium if necessary, much like Google forked WebKit (after sending patches upstream for a while) and Apple forked KHTML. This is just how open source works and isn't a problem in itself.

By doing this, Microsoft gets compatibility with the world's websites on day one, and they can take it from there. It's a smart move that many people seem to be misinterpreting.

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Re:Google’s Chrome Becomes Web ‘Gatekeeper’ and Rivals Complain by throwaway808080 on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @11:36PM (#20048147)
It’s a money move. Ms sunk billions in Edge. With chredge bing ads makes profits. It will come installed in windows by default.

If google’s killing ad block extensions, Microsoft will most definitely follow suite.

Your only best bet is Firefox right now.

Chrome is a Trojan horse and Google most definitely doesn’t give a shit about your privacy.

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