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Just use a normal browser then. You aren’t blocked from the web.

But Chromium is a normal browser!

Chromium is, but the GP said they were using CEF embedded in another browser, which is specifically what this tries to prevent.

I imagine using normal raw Chromium will continue to work just fine.

Oh, oops, good point! I saw the line "I'm forced to use Chrome instead of Chromium" and made some assumptions! If Google wants to explicitly block a framework that is designed to be a WebView, that seems a bit more reasonable (even if it sucks for the OP).

How would Google differentiate between Chromium and CEF in a way that isn't trivially spoofable by the latter?

By doing weird fingerprinting stuff, I assume.

I dunno. I think the situation where a company made a framework explicitly for embedded WebViews is a little different than what's happening with Epiphany.

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