That makes me feel better ta, don't have to book myself into a room next to my grandma in the care home just yet then.
I wonder how much control third party devs get over a Chromium build and if there still a certain amount of telemetry crap baked in?
They can rip out whatever they want, I guess, so long as they honour the Chromium licence terms. But for me it’s much more fundamental than that. It’s about the largest advertising monopoly on the planet having sole control over web standards. See the Manifest V2/V3 switch: Google claims that Manifest V2 was old and insecure, but we all damn well know that the intent was to cripple the effectiveness of plugins like uBlock Origin. It’s not the advertising that I have a problem with - it’s my browser being turned into a surveillance platform, and then having the tools I use to protect myself being kneecapped by the very people I’m trying to protect myself from.
