Additionally, Vivaldi would be my browser of choice if Firefox ever failed, so I have an invested interest to see them succeed. I think we all would benefit, not being forced to do down Google's and Microsoft's so-called rabbit hole. So I would like to think Vivaldi and Brave could keep it up, even if it is Chromium. I wish more people cared about their privacy, and I wish more people worried about ad-blocking. But the idea of Mozilla Firefox -vs- the world, does not make me feel comfortable. I particularly like Firefox Nightly (rolling release). If it is any consolation, I would like to be wrong.ĭon't get me wrong, Mozilla Firefox is my preferred browser. Later on when someone does notice, they will come out with some lame excuse about how most of the time it still works and nobody needs to think to deeply about it. Then after a few news cycles, will quietly drop it for their own ad blocking and hope that most of their users don't notice. Google expects most users to not really notice this happening and for it to all blow over, leaving only more technical users who care.īrace will keep v2 working for just a bit longer than Google and capitalize off the PR that they are unchanged. But other ad blockers will keep "working."
It just makes them unreliable and leaky (which is why uBlock Origin is refusing to play along). Ultimately, Google's gamble is that v3 will not totally kill ads. Why would Google want to benefit a competitor?
CHROMIUM VS CHROME REDDIT CODE
The v2 code will rot immediately and Brave will have to spend exponentially more resources to keep fixing it, or suffer security/performance regressions.Įven worse, Google has every incentive to do this intentionally too. Both technically and financially.Įventually Chromium will be developed and expanded in such a way that v2 will be incompatible.Įven just by accident, tons of changes to Chromium will break v2, once its no longer part of the test suite. But they are also incapable of maintaining a deeper fork of chromium. Mozilla puts massive resources to keeping up with web standards, but the benefit is they get a say in how the web turns out.īrave doesn't need to spend the time or money on that and can focus their resources on marketing themselves and their cryptocurrency. Even worse, they simply don't have the technical resources to make deep changes to the engine. They will be playing whack a mole against not one (1), but two (2) multi-billion dollar corporations.Įxactly, they can make all kinds of assurances they want to cash in on PR right now.īut ultimately Chromium browsers (like Brave/Vivaldi/.) don't get a say in Chromium itself.
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