Does it? My understanding is that many chromium browsers, while being originally forked from it, are independently developed at this point and aren't tied to Google.
Nah, they're all soft forks, and constantly re-base/update against main chromium build. Hence they often talk about upstream and downstream. Here's the Open Source versions showing it (Opera/Vivaldi/SRWare Iron/Edge/etc are Closed Source); https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/29839
It does put paid to them being about Privacy. It's also a google chromium browser and continues to prop up their monopoly.
Does it? My understanding is that many chromium browsers, while being originally forked from it, are independently developed at this point and aren't tied to Google.
Nah, they're all soft forks, and constantly re-base/update against main chromium build. Hence they often talk about upstream and downstream. Here's the Open Source versions showing it (Opera/Vivaldi/SRWare Iron/Edge/etc are Closed Source); https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/29839
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/commit/5bf56b199816e5ddb3bab7d0a495c695c0a073e7
https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/releases
I see, thanks for shedding light on that for me.