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Google Google plans to revoke others' Chromium-based browsers' access to a long list of APIs that power such popular services as bookmark and settings synchronization. "We discovered that some third-party Chromium-based browsers were able to integrate Google features, such as Chrome Sync and Click to Call, that are only intended for Google's use," Jochen Eisinger, Chrome engineering director, wrote in a Jan. 15 post to a company blog. Access to what Eisinger labeled "our private Chrome APIs" will be blocked starting March 15. Although Eisinger mentioned only two APIs by name �...

Google has announced that it will be restricting several Chrome APIs from March 15, 2021. An audit by the firm found that some unnamed third-party Chromium-based web browsers were leveraging them.

Most of the source code for Chrome is open-source under the Chromium project, but some features are only available on official Chrome builds. One