Google did it again.

  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sadly it’s a Chromium browser.

    Chromium is the open source project, it doesn’t contain any of the Google Chrome specific changes.

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      1 year ago

      Google’s changes for Chrome are a problem. That’s the main topic of this discussion.

      To take it further, Chromium being mainly developed and maintained by Google and a ton of browsers basing themselves on that is another problem: Chromium monoculture and why it is a concern.

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        1 year ago

        Chomium isn’t Chrome, but Chrome is Chromium. Just like Vivaldi or Edge aren’t Chrome, they’re Chromium (based). Unless you can show that these tracking features are going into the Open Source Chromium Project, we’re pretty safe. Google has stripped the “good stuff” (account syncing/backup and maybe a few other things I’m unaware of) from Chromium in order to force people to Chrome, at least on Linux.

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          1 year ago

          Sure. I am with you. That’s not what my previous message was about, though.

          I agree with you 100% on what you just said.