amphtml VS brave-core

https://amp.dev/ is that. No one wants to use it because the very first line of the mandatory js file is about advertising metrics.

Google announced an open source HTML framework called AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) for better and faster experiences on the mobile web (Google said that) in 2015. This was created in an effort to play against Facebook Instant Articles.

Does Flutter web allow for AMP compatibility?

Without disclosing too much, I am fairly involved around this topic, and I would say it's definitely heading for deprecation this year. The key giveaway is that Google Analytics 3 will be shutting down in July[0] and AMP has made no progress towards supporting Google Analytics 4[1]. I think it'll be deprecated at first rather than shut down because there are still billions of AMP documents floating around the web.

[0] https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/11583528?hl=en

[1] https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/issues/24621

Accelerated Mobile Page is a Google-backed open-source project that allows you to create fast-loading super mobile-friendly pages.

OK, so we've all probably heard about AMP HTML from Google by now.

No JavaScript will be allowed other than an off-the-shelf AMP library

Recently I came across the AMP website at https://amp.dev/ (after some years since first seeing it). It’s really remarkable how much Google wants to pretend this is an industry standard and not their own little fiefdom. I don’t see the word Google anywhere, not even on the About page.

More about AMP

Unrelated but about Brave and interesting to me: I recently found myself having a large upstream project that I need to maintain some custom patches for, and there's a need for deeper customizations and I worry that my rudimentary system of applying .patch files will turn into an unmaintainable nightmare of merge conflicts after every rebase. I was thinking about possible solutions, and it occurred to me that Brave being Chromium-based must have this same challenge but an order of magnitude more difficult, so I looked for their code to see how they solved this issue.

It's pretty interesting! They do basically the same thing for core Chromium, applying a (big) set of patches[1].

Incidentally, I'd be interested to hear any ideas/approaches to this problem. I'm guessing if there was something clearly better, Brave would be doing it, but it seems like there should be a better way even if I can't think of one.

[1] https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/master/patches

https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/13737

(Incidentally, that PR number is not quite elite. :)

I disagree that it's lip service Brave has a ton of engine level privacy patches https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/master/patches

To my understanding you can't match it with just js extensions.

Only firefox on the highest security mode comes close I think?

Or ungoogled chromium? (brave has most of their patches IIRC)

Are there other options that have this number of patches?

Chromium is not 100% Google's forever and always, though they do currently lead the way, and with the most used/backed fork.

https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/19476

They have much more changes than just compile flags. Here's the repo where they maintain their patch set: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/tree/master/patches

Brave Private Ads toggle controls just Push Notification ads at this time. So, if you are still seeing Push Notification ads, that would be incorrect. However, it's normal to still see New Tab Page image ads, and/or other ad formats. We are introducing a new UI that helps you better toggle on/off specific ad units, and removing the "Brave Private Ads" toggle that can be confusing: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/18938

Yes, being fixed. Github at https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/18922