The endless browser wars

The setup instructions make it very clear that us non-enterprise peasants, perhaps everyone outside of Mozilla, are not supposed to be even looking at this stuff, much less trying to use it. While it might satisfy the bare minimum required by a legal department (or a distro maintainer who doesn't look too closely at the browsers they ship), it's not open by any stretch of common sense.

A lot of chromium-based products also claim to have source available — in the disused lavatory in the basement, at the end of the corridor filled with landmines, down the unlit stairs with three steps missing. Nobody pretends that's anything other than malicious compliance.

This API key thing is probably the last straw after years of Google being malicious for a lot of distro maintainers; getting Chromium itself to build is an experience in masochism. I wish they'd throw out QtWebEngine too. The Broken Web deserves no quarter in FOSS.