Fork Chrome is usually easier said than done, as proven by the "success" of most FOSS forks, besides many key features aren't even in Chromium.

I am mostly a Firefox user, at least until it stays around.

Brave and Vivaldi is quite success IMO.

Yet another two re-inforcing Chrome dominance on the Web.

Brave is ~0.05% market share.

It’s probably successful in that it’s a well known project within the tech community. And 0.05% of the global browser market is a lot of users and probably a decent business. (Are they profitable?)

But outside of HN type audiences, no one has heard of it.

It seems that they became profitable, weirdly enough, by having users opt-in to their own ads... in their ad-blocking browser [0].

[0]: https://brave.com/2021-recap/

Content blocking proxy should still work. For example,

- https://github.com/barre/privaxy

- https://github.com/AdguardTeam/urlfilter

Welcome to mandatory "secure DNS", followed by Google's automatic (and mandatory) "privacy protecting VPN" built right into chrome!

They won't stop. Ever.

> followed by Google's automatic (and mandatory) "privacy protecting VPN" built right into chrome!

Hmm...

My workplace banned the use of Brave a number of weeks back because Brave started including a VPN with it. They were concerned about people using the VPN to bypass corporate security mechanisms.

If Chrome did the same, I wonder if they'd ban that as well?

You can’t really fork chrome; it would be unsustainable as an open source project. Unless you plan to keep integrating upstream changes - but then you’re still following whatever Google wants to do, you can merely delay it.