Right now a lot of us are trying to divest and diversify from having our entire lives on Google both because of the way Google spends its money and the long-standing privacy concerns seeming a bit more scary now.

What services have you switched to and what has your experience been? What do you like, what don’t you like, would you recommend them?

  • tfm@europe.pub
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    20 hours ago

    No. Brave builds on top of the Chromium engine which is from Google but open source.

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        19 hours ago

        No it doesn’t. If Google stops supporting it, the community forks it and continues development. Has happened often in the past.

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          You can’t just fork a browser engine. You need a lot of resources to keep one alive. The only browser engine that I know of which was successfully forked was goanna. And that’s a gecko fork from when it wasn’t even multithreaded, and it still took years.