• Nalivai@lemmy.world
    6·
    9 hours ago

    When Google will discontinue Chromium as an opensource project (notice that I didn’t say if), all those browsers will survive for half a year and then die due to lack of compliance and security updates. Chromium is incredibly complicated, web protocols are even more complicated, none of that is good, and people are rapidly losing the ability to maintain complicated projects due to LLM-induced mass psychoses.
    The fact that the engine can in theory be forked now doesn’t add much.

          • Nalivai@lemmy.world
            1·
            8 hours ago

            I’m saying, both basically and extensively, that if you’re using Chromium as your engine, you don’t get to then turn around and tell that your product is a solution to a corporate world and you’re the alternative of evil Google, or whatever the basic spiel of all this endless ad posts here.
            Building an engine is complicated, forking and continuing Google product is more complicated, I get it. Chromium-based products can be good, and I bet most of them are better than Chrome (but then again, hitting your pinky toe at night when you go to pee is also better than Chrome, so low bar). But “the alternative to Google tyranny” they aren’t. You need to at least fork the engine, support it independently, and substantially alter it, even to be considered one.
            So again. My solution as a browser builder is to ask “how much money I have, and how much people I employ”, and additionally, what’s my actual point of doing it, what am I trying to achieve.