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[–] moon_matter@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Single point of failure for everyone with no alternatives is very bad if something nasty happens.

That's not really true since it's open source. We have teams from 10+ browsers paying close attention to the Chromium code base. So while people will put up with some nonsense, the community would eventually fork it if they got too far out of line. Deep down, Google knows this and it's why they have hesitated to implement changes that would negatively affect ad blocking extensions. They are one step away from tons of developers forking their code base.