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Re:Brave Search beta by toyg on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @01:06PM (#27594245)
Chromium is nominally open source - in practice it's controlled by Google employees in any way that matters. So you would literally be handing full control over the web-experience to Google.
Re:Brave Search beta by aembleton on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @06:42PM (#27598228)
Nothing would stop it being forked. If for example, Microsoft wanted something added then they could fork it; add their code and use that in Edge.
Re:Brave Search beta by hellotomyrars on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:14PM (#27600375)
Nothing stops them but considering they've gone the route of "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" after fighting for so long, I doubt they're likely to diverge significantly at this stage.