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I'm just summarizing what the linked article actually says.

As for your examples, Konqueror and Falkon might be blocked because they use Qt WebEngine – which embeds Blink in the Qt framework [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine)#Framewo...

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Nice for Google to block the project that wrote the origins of their browser engine.

The Qt project didn't write the origins of Google's browser engine.

Blink forked from Webkit, which started as a fork of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. Many KDE-projects are built upon Qt, but Qt is an independent project.

I think they are talking about Konqueror, not QT. Konqueror is what KHTML was developed for, iirc.

Ah, right. Thanks!

KDE-projects like Konqueror and Falkon, the subjects under specific discussion?

> Nice for Google to block the project that wrote the origins of their browser engine.

In this case it's blocking the embedded Blink, which is their browser engine, so at least they're consistent?

Yeah, Blink, which is a fork from Safaris WebKit, which is a fork of Konquerors KHTML. Google Chrome wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for Konqueror.

yes, that's what the "consistent" was referring to...

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