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		o-__-o on Dec 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user... And chromium was forked from webkit.. so why not head to the source and cut off the cancer at the root? I can't believe I just called Google the cancer, but would anyone disagree?

kodablah on Dec 5, 2019 [–]

> so why not head to the source and cut off the cancer at the root?

For me, easy consumability. I use Chromium Embedded Framework, I don't actually put the hard work into building and maintaining an API myself. I'd love a similar effort for Gecko (there was effort at one time, but nothing of late IIRC).

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