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Re:Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform di... by FoxBJK on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:53AM (#37432005)
Google does some stupid things, but Chromium is "too big to fail" at this point and it's too essential to products like Android which are also at that same point.

But hypothetically if Google stopped contributing to Chromium the project would be forked and it would live on. Frankly, Google removing themselves from Chromium would fix the one major complaint a lot of people have with it.

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Re:Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform di... by swiftcoder on Friday September 08, 2023 @08:05AM (#37432454)
I wonder how that works if Google wants to kill the forks. There are a bunch of important components like widevine that can be withheld to put pressure on the project.
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