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Honest question here, since chromium (vs chrome) is open source, can someone not fork an older version, or remove the new code blocking ublock?
I mean i assume it cant be done, but i dont know why
It can be done, but then whoever forks that will need to stay on top of keeping that fork up to date with other changes in the original chromium, and that gets harder and harder to do as time goes on and more changes are made to the same or related parts of the codebase.
Also all the ad blocking extensions would have to continue maintaining forks of their own projects for increasingly obscure manifest V2 Chromium browsers.
And you have to know that if anyone actually tried, they would dedicate their infinite resources to making that as difficult as humanly possible.
Google: We changed a color
Fork Developer: they changed a color and it caused 50,000 breaking changes that a diff tool can't handle automatically wtf.
Google: sorry wrong color here's a new one
Fork developer: another 100,000 breaking changes that a diff can't handle?!?!
I don't know why either. What I do know is that most Chromium browsers that are not Chrome have ad-blocking built into the browser itself using the same strategies as uBo but not reliant on Mv2 or Mv3 because they're not extensions.