Right on. Why on earth is Google abandoning precious users to mine data from, especially when it's actually involving less effort than catering to Chrome users?
And even if it made sense for the users, Google made Chrome open source and this has spawned many great (and some awful) projects and allowed even Google haters to use it, but this shouldn't mean they are also forced to provide related services.
Also, only chromium is available in my distro's official repositories.
Where did you get the idea that anyone thinks Google should be forced to support other browsers?
The Hackaday piece even says "Google is going to run their business as they see fit. If they think allowing unofficial builds of Chromium to tap into their cloud services such as Sync isn’t worth it, it’s their prerogative to block them."
The topic is more the annoyance that what had once been an official exception to the terms of service (which passed through legal and the VP level at Google) has not merely been rescinded, but treated as if it were never valid and its asserted mis-use "discovered" by an audit.
If MS were smart, they'd open up their alternatives to the Chromium community. They've done such a good job at building goodwill the past few years, and would be a nice gesture.
> The Brave project has built a Sync server for their Chromium-based Brave browser: https://github.com/brave/go-sync and it is open source but uses Amazon Cloud for their database backend storage.