

Google is the maintainer and biggest contributor to chromium.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser) and they’ve already introduced wei into chromium without any pushback.
https://kbin.social/m/degoogle@lemmy.ml/t/255346/Google-is-already-pushing-WEI-DRM-Webpage-into-Chromium
There are forks of chromium already like Vivaldi. You can still use them. Unfortunately using them is not a guarantee that Google can’t use their usage numbers as leverage while politicing or advertising bad behaviour to other parties like social media.
Worse yet, maintaining a fork is a huge undertaking for a project in the size of chromium. This means in time the fork may struggle to keep up. Or upstream may introduce functions that depends on the bad behaviours and the fork be forced to either adopt both, or adopt none.
I wouldn’t ever imagine to shed a tear for the processes I have killed in my whole life. I feel like a homicidal maniac.