Is Google Locking Down Chrome to Resist the Rise of Chromium Based Browsers? - It's FOSS News
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Google is limiting the capability of Chromium. Is it because Chromium-based browsers have started to eat into Google Chrome's marketshare?

The inherent problem with creating a new browser/platform is getting people to create addons/extensions for it.

If you don’t think Google could do this, think again. Google has an iron grip on the Chromium project.

From the beginning of its time with Google, Android was touted as THE open-source phone operating system. The Android Open Source Project was used by several projects to create their own version of Android.

Then at a certain point, Google introduced an app called Google Play Services. This app is not open source and contains all of the stuff you need to access Google’s services.

  • @AlmaemberTheGreat@lemmy.ml
    -2•3 years ago

    They are not close to Google but they are still doing pretty shady shit:

    • That “fake news detection” or whatever feature
    • Google Safe Browsing
    • Integrating Widevine etc.
      • datendefekt
        2•3 years ago

        I’m a bit on the fence regarding WideVine. It is important to keep everything open, but broad adoption is also important. Not implementing DRM would make Firefox unusable for many users.