The issue with this is that they could start controlling the standards and everyone would have to follow behind instead of everyone working and doing what’s best for consumers.
While chromium is open source, that doesn’t mean they have to accept merges from the community. It only means that they have to provide the source code. Yes it can be forked, but now you have to maintain or develop your engine. If they’re the dominant ones and are setting standards, that won’t help much.
By using another one you are helping keep a neutral ground.
The difference between MySQL and MariaDB is that you have PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, MSSQL among a bunch of others, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_relational_datab...
So the issue isn’t forking or not, but the fact that it’s still close enough that gives chromium the competitive edge and could kill the market.
That entire industry is a dumpster fire of greed, fraud, and misrepresentation.
Whoever are pushing them - including Telegram that I otherwise like - are damaging their reputation in my eyes.
>takes crypto donation hostage and opens funds in other people's names (i.e. scams crypto to artificially create demand for that BAT)
If you use Brave you literally are part of the problem.
My gripe there is that it started showing push notifications of ads!!! Once I blocked all its notifications everything went to normality.