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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A fork like Vivaldi, Brave or Opera could opt not to implement these changes, but then some websites could become incompatible to them.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A fork like Vivaldi, Brave or Opera could opt not to implement these changes

It doesn't quite work like that. They wouldn't choose to not implement the change, because the change comes from upstream via Chromium. They would have to choose to remove the feature which, depending on how it's integrated, could be just as much work as implementing it (or more, if Google wants to be difficult on purpose). Not implementing the change is zero effort; removing the upstream code is a lot of effort.