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What if someone would create a pull request to implement unlock origin natively inside chromium, instead of an extension. If such a PR met all technical criteria, would Chromium project accept it?

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No. Google would not include, as a built-in part of Chromium that is installed by default, a feature to lower their ad revenue.

Doesn't Chromium already lower their revenue from other lacks of integration that are included in Chrome?

Next to no one uses Chromium. The integrations usually start in Chrome, leaving Chromium pure, allowing Opera etc to forge their own path. This is a disturbing trend to change the course of the project, likely due to Edge being based on Chromium.

I bet a decent chunk of the MS engineers lobbied to adopt Gecko instead of Chromium when they decided to move away from EdgeHtml. I wonder what the reasoning was for not going that route, it seems like a huge miss and a total acceptance of a browser monoculture.

Gecko is deep in to a transitional phase. Once it comes out the other end it may be simple to embed but it's currently far too early for that.

On the other hand Chromium is relatively simple to adapt with many real world examples to learn from.

(Personally I think they should stick with EdgeHtml but it seems that ship has sailed).

I wish they would have thrown in with the Servo project, but Chromium is ready now and Servo isn't, so I'm sure that factored in.

I wonder how quickly servo could become feature if a major player decided to adopt it.

nodeJS uses Chromium and not Gecko. I suspect MS’s requirements basically necessitated the use of Chromium.

However, this does provide an opening for MS edge, if MS forks Chromium for Edge and excludes user hostile “features” such as this.

Sadly the only use of Chromium among regular non-tech people is in spyware/malware installations.

There is a quite a bit of adware which uses unsigned Chromium to push their wares.

That is the malware installs a modified Chromium with all the "extras".

So anecdotally, when I see Chromium on a users computer I assume the worst (that I have a cleanup task ahead).

Brave browser may be what you are looking for.

Isn't it also based on Chromium?

Sure, but this change might cause a hard fork. VC investment in browsers has been a long time coming.

Of course not.

I'd love Chromium feature that uses system password manager (macOS / iCloud).

On the flip side Chrome's profiles are nice and I wish macOS supported more of it.

If you want something like that, get Brave. It's Chromium-based that has privacy and ad-blocking built-in.

Is there a chance that Google's changes here might disrupt Brave's integration into Chromium? I mean, they might be using this WebRequest API to do their built-in blocking.

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