Some people don't want to use browsers based on #Chromium . And it is a choice as valid as any other. But one thing is clear: building a #browser engine from scratch is not a simple task.
Our team maintains and modifies the Chromium code constantly, both to add features and to get rid of #datacollection tools and other stuff added by #Google . And this is already complex enough.
On top of that, we also have to modify WebKit on #iOS - at least for the time being.
Here's a recent interview where @jon talks about our choices and the challenge of going against #BigTech as a small company:
(It's in Norwegian but don't let that scare you! 😉)