The premise of this article is false. It’s possible to build a new browser. It’s just not worth it. If you can simply just fork chromium like Microsoft recently did, why would any time restricted project not go that route?
You can remove the google integrations fairly easily and still get patches from the main project for core browser work.
My main point is that Microsoft could have written a new browser instead but they saw it was more efficient to just fork one.
You can remove the google integrations fairly easily and still get patches from the main project for core browser work.
My main point is that Microsoft could have written a new browser instead but they saw it was more efficient to just fork one.