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Brave browser quietly slips a VPN service onto your Windows PC (www.androidcentral.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Chromium is still controlled by Google, so having an overwhelming market share of Chromium-based browsers reduces competition and increases Google's control of the market's position and future. Using Firefox (and Safari, if it were not locked to a single ecosystem) reduces that threat.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    When we say "controlled", that's still only accounting for the primary fork, right?

    As long as it's open source, it feels like the idea is that the day Google pushes "feat(): Users now automatically have $1 sent to Google a day" commit, someone creates a "chromium-nongooglefucked" fork repository from the prior commit, and everyone uses that.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    K

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It just means if they want to do something bad then they can

    If Google wanted to they could ban VPNs on all Chromium browsers and all the forks downstream would have to comply

    More likely they can make it so only verified websites will load and down the line charge to be verified. It kills the open internet and the ability for anyone to make a website/host it where they want

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