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Chromium is already a suitable open source browser engine that a privacy focused browser product could be built on top of.

Forking it and setting up the CI for all tests, monitoring performance regression, etc -- no thanks.

Having worked on Firefox CI infrastructure years ago, it's a huge and complex setup. As I recall back then it was >100 compute hours per push.

Fork it and keep synching in from upstream, sure that's easy. But are you an independent browser?

web is bursting with abuses. euros like to regulate. if they regulate & enforce-away the abuses, the browser could be made far far simpler.

Or Firefox.