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Can someone ELI5 how this could prevent a fork of Chromium from just not playing nice and telling the website "yeah yeah, it's all untempered *wink wink*" and then still remove/alter stuff as it pleases?
Edit: ok I think I got it ... it's basically the server that decides if it trusts the judgment of the client or not. Can't wait to see that cat-and-mouse game going on ๐
Yeah, I can imagine a fork of chromium existing that takes all the data and does the rendering pipeline """normally""", but then on the side does something completely different and shows THAT to the user, while giving the server an idea that nothing is wrong and what it is doing is just normal chromium stuff.
But such an idea will be done entirely by enthusiasts, slowly, on an obscure basis. For the majority of users, that will never even be a conceivable notion of something they can do with the internet. Itll never be something you see on a top, mainstream browser.
In other words, Google wins.