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Linux users are more likely than most to be familiar with Chromium, Google's the free and open source web project that serves as the basis for their wildly popular Chrome. Since the project's inception over a decade ago, users have been able to compile the BSD licensed code into a browser that's almost the same as the closed-source Chrome. As such, most distributions offer their own package for the browser and some even include it in the base install. Unfortunately, that may be changing soon.
[...] To the average Chromium user, this doesn't sound like much of a problem. In fact, you might even assume it doesn't apply to you. The language used in the post makes it sound like Google is referring to browsers which are spun off of the Chromium codebase, and at least in part, they are. But the search giant is also using this opportunity to codify their belief that the only official Chromium builds are the ones that they provide themselves. With that simple change, anyone using a distribution-specific build of Chromium just became persona non grata.
(Score: 2) by Lester on Sunday January 31 2021, @11:41AM
Yes, you can. But if you don't care being irrelevant. As long as you don't care to be part of an underground group that doesn't affect the rest of the world you can create your even your own internet with your top level domain.
But if you want a service with high traffic, 24/7 service 99% uptime, and not devoting hours of your time to maintenance (keeping system up to date with last attacks, exploits, updating software etc) or paying expensive technician to do so, you will have to go to one of those services.