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    1 year ago

    It’s not about whether it’s a chromium browser or not. It’s about whether a browser is “trusted” and installed from a “trusted” source, like the windows store… Basically gatekeeping. Still, Firefox and any browser could still be approved.

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      1 year ago

      This would be an insane damage to the Linux community since there are many different ways to install programms(including browsers).

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        1 year ago

        Absolutely! I would wager a guess that something like this would require support on a package manager level, meaning that the biggest like Ubuntu or what not could have access to a functioning “trusted” browser. But good luck on a niche distro, or if you want to compile it yourself, or if you want to use certain extensions or…

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        1 year ago

        According to Google - probably source code that can’t block ads and that is known to not block trackers… basically.