44
Germany's Ecosia proposes stewardship to run Google Chrome
(www.reuters.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2025
44 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
40691 readers
184 users here now
A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.
Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Eh... uhh... does Ecosia even have the ability to maintain such a large and complicated code base?
Chromium is open source, so they'd only need to steward the Google parts of Chrome. I can't speak to the size of that codebase, but given that it's just the part that makes it shitty, and Google would no longer be in control, that could be significantly pruned.
According to this Google accounts for 90% of Chromium code contributions. If Google does not control Chrome anymore, expect them to mostly go away.