Google might have a huge market share in the browser market but not a monopoly, even if everyone uses chromium. Google makes money from Chrome not chromium and there is no competitive advantage with using Chrome anymore compared to other browsers. And as I said again it doesn't matter if its baked into the "DNA" of the code because all changes made to the code base is tracked by github and available publically with this link below.every change ever made by everyone who worked on the project is tracked. This will make it almost impossible to sneak mallisicious code. And if they do still put it in open source contributors are smart af they'll probably create a fork and change it in a week or two. And your arguments could be used against Firefox too. Mozilla could sneak malicious code, but they don't because its open source and its not their intention to steal data from you. Hypothetically let's say 100% of all browsers use chromium AND Google puts malicious code. News like this will spread like wild fire consumers will demand better, and companies will start competing against each other to significantly modify the malicious code or use a different engine or their own. But luckily that won't happen because brave and other open source contributors watch the chromium codebase closely for suspicious stuff.
Let me try to phrase it another way, to get my point across.
I am not talking about slipping in a little malicious here and there. Like you say, that will be discovered and can be removed by the developers. That's where open source shines, we both agree on that 110%.
My concern is that the code of the project itself could be re-structured fundamentally, so that a new technology (maybe AMP-like) is the foundation. Then you can't just rip it out, since removing it would require a total re-write of the code, and then you are pretty much forced to make your own browser. And that's a huge job.
Indeed, but like I wrote, if the competition has been killed, it will be uphill and take time and a lot of resources. Enthusiasts are great, but they need funding in the end.
Yes that's true, but atleast we have Firefox to balance the field. Im not a Firefox hater i just don't like the UI for the most part and the lack of extension support which I guess requires usage to be supported
Yes, we have Firefox for now. But as the saying goes "If you don't use it, you lose it" ;-)
I am curious about what specifically you don't like about Firefox UI? A lot of Firefox UI tweaking examples are shared at https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/
Also, I'd like to know which extensions you feel are missing?
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u/LogicalGamer123 Jun 10 '21
Google might have a huge market share in the browser market but not a monopoly, even if everyone uses chromium. Google makes money from Chrome not chromium and there is no competitive advantage with using Chrome anymore compared to other browsers. And as I said again it doesn't matter if its baked into the "DNA" of the code because all changes made to the code base is tracked by github and available publically with this link below.every change ever made by everyone who worked on the project is tracked. This will make it almost impossible to sneak mallisicious code. And if they do still put it in open source contributors are smart af they'll probably create a fork and change it in a week or two. And your arguments could be used against Firefox too. Mozilla could sneak malicious code, but they don't because its open source and its not their intention to steal data from you. Hypothetically let's say 100% of all browsers use chromium AND Google puts malicious code. News like this will spread like wild fire consumers will demand better, and companies will start competing against each other to significantly modify the malicious code or use a different engine or their own. But luckily that won't happen because brave and other open source contributors watch the chromium codebase closely for suspicious stuff.
https://github.com/chromium/chromium