And second, it's still not wasted effort if you get the fix that you need.
Putting aside the impracticality of building Chrome or Android from source in perpetuity - and the fact that you'd actually end up with Chromium and AOSP - what good does it do if you fix a bug for one user? You still have to deal with it existing for 99.99999% of users in your app/website.
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First of all, I don't know that would happen - it looks like the maintainers are open to the patches.
And second, it's still not wasted effort if you get the fix that you need.
Putting aside the impracticality of building Chrome or Android from source in perpetuity - and the fact that you'd actually end up with Chromium and AOSP - what good does it do if you fix a bug for one user? You still have to deal with it existing for 99.99999% of users in your app/website.