No the issue with forking specifically in this instance is google has almost literally half the planet using chrome, over 3 billion users. Forks, Firefox, other browsers, none of them matter. What google does will be the standard, period. Everything else is a minority to be crushed under the ad-laden boot of google.

The open web was given a terminal diagnosis the second an ad company got control of the browser market, this is just it finally dying. We can’t protest it, we can’t switch to another internet like we switched to another site for reddit, it’s over. We lost.