yes, it will.
whether or not a ‘fully functional’ and fully-featured content blocker remains available for third-party browsers that use chromium as their core will depend on those third-parties and what they add, or add back, to their own releases to support those kinds of browser extensions.
abrahambelch@programming.dev 3 months ago
I guess so. I don’t get your second point however. Chromium is as independent from Google/Chrome as your banking app from your bank account.
tate@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
I thought the situation was a little like Android. Google develops an open source version (along with as many independent developers who wish to contribute), then sticks on a bunch of proprietary BS and sells that version to phone companies. If chromium is to chrome like vanilla android is to android with g-services, then I guess my question really becomes: is google making this change in the underlying code base, or just in the BS they put on top?
Or am I confused about how the connection works between chrome and chromium?
abrahambelch@programming.dev 3 months ago
Now I get your point. Technically, I think it could be possible to only include the changes in Chrome. It would make sense for Google to push the changes all the way down to Chromium, though, as this would eliminate ad blockers on many competing browsers as well. Judging in the past I would say this is what’s gonna happen