this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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Google, or let say the Chromium group, can easily implement "features" that are already present in proprietary Google Chrome, and easily control the Internet and its users' peesonalized settings.
Competition will be dead.
Can't third parties modify the source code?
Yes but no, there are 2 options you either submit a commit and chromium can accept that code or you fork the project and then you have to maintain it and add features yourself. So while they could it would require a ton more effort to keeping it up to datw
Then if this is such a pressing issue why has no one done so? I'd expect such a high number of people shitting on google to have the combined power to at least try to make a fork. But idk