Jochen Eisinger from Google team mentioned in a discussion thread that they will be banning sync support system of Chromium. This lead to lot of frustration in the Linux Dev community & rage against googles sudden decision.
This Decision can kill small browser projects & lead the web to single browser monopoly i.e. Google Chrome!As a result of the googles decision multiple distros are strictly considering removal of Chromium from their official repositories. Leading distros like Arch Linux, Fedora, Debian, Slackware & OpenSUSE have stated that if the sync support goes down from google they will definitely remove chromium from their official repositories.
See what Arch Linux have said:
What is the exact issue?
Sync Libraries have public keys for third party browsers to sync user data between devices, however after this sync ban third party browsers who rely on chromium will lose this functionality. Many non-technical users use find this sync function to be very easy for them. But if its banned then they will struggle to sync with other extensions and eventually install Google Chrome in near future. And hence chromium & chromium dependent browsers will see a sudden drop of users base.
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