Is Google Locking Down Chrome to Resist the Rise of Chromium Based Browsers? - It's FOSS News
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Google is limiting the capability of Chromium. Is it because Chromium-based browsers have started to eat into Google Chrome's marketshare?

The inherent problem with creating a new browser/platform is getting people to create addons/extensions for it.

If you don’t think Google could do this, think again. Google has an iron grip on the Chromium project.

From the beginning of its time with Google, Android was touted as THE open-source phone operating system. The Android Open Source Project was used by several projects to create their own version of Android.

Then at a certain point, Google introduced an app called Google Play Services. This app is not open source and contains all of the stuff you need to access Google’s services.

  • riccardo
    8·
    4 years ago

    What would happen to these Chromium-based browsers if Google blocked their access to the Google Chrome Store? Without access to their familiar tools, would they stay with Brave or Edge? I think many would switch back to Chrome because people tend to choose the path of least resistance.

    Is the author talking about a scenario which is not yet reality but that is being hinted by some recent moves from Google - or it’s just pure speculation? Has Google somehow manifested the will to block chromium forks from accessing its extensions store?

    • zeroaesthetic
      8·
      4 years ago

      It’s hypothetical, I think, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it happened a year or two down the line.