Comment by Jcampuzano2
6 months ago
For what its worth, I'm on Brave (chromium based) and this also works there, so it appears to not necessarily be only Chrome but potentially any chromium browser where they haven't specifically blocked/disabled this
Arguably, Chromium is more important to Google than Chrome is.
By controlling the engine, they have de facto control over the standards.
By keeping Chromium open, they incentivise forks. Most people who don't want to use Chrome because it's Google's or for some other reason will use one of the forks or Chromium-based browsers.
By keeping this illusion of choice, Google extends its control.