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Chromium has many of the same problems as Chrome. I don't think Google can be trusted to not abuse their position any more.

noir_lord 8y ago
I wonder how far they can push it before one of the larger more open distro's just goes "yep, that was far as you are going" and we end up with the Chromed Ice Weasel.
- _red 8y ago
  Well there is already vivaldi, iridium, and ungoogled-chromium. But a better choice, IMO, is to install Brave since they are not just removing spy-features, but enabling new ideas to incentivize support for a more privacy focused internet.
  - JoshMnem 8y ago
    The ad model is fundamentally broken, because all roads there eventually lead to tracking and online garbage. Monocultures are bad, so I don't think people should only use Chrome-based browsers. Google once tried to do ads without going down the wrong path, but that clearly hasn't worked out. I think that Firefox Quantum is a better alternative.
    - yuhong 8y ago
      Yea, that was what my essay/overview was about, including tracing these problems back to Larry/Sergey. It is probably worth posting a link here: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/09/google-doubleclick-mozilla-overview_92.html http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/09/google-doubleclick-moz...
  - matheusmoreira 8y ago
    How effective is ungoogled-chromium at removing Google from the browser?
18pfsmt 8y ago
Have you looked at this project? https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
- JoshMnem 8y ago
  I've seen it, but Chromium is fundamentally a Google product and it still has some of Chrome's problems. If we want future generations to experience technology freedom, we should avoid monocultures.
- sincerely 8y ago
  That has the same issue as Waterfox and other projects where you lose out on quick fixes for discovered exploits.
pymai 8y ago
there are other chromium based browsers like vivaldi and brave that might disable a lot of the google crap but i couldn't be certain of the top of my head

noir_lord 8y ago

I wonder how far they can push it before one of the larger more open distro's just goes "yep, that was far as you are going" and we end up with the Chromed Ice Weasel.

_red 8y ago
Well there is already vivaldi, iridium, and ungoogled-chromium. But a better choice, IMO, is to install Brave since they are not just removing spy-features, but enabling new ideas to incentivize support for a more privacy focused internet.
- JoshMnem 8y ago
  The ad model is fundamentally broken, because all roads there eventually lead to tracking and online garbage. Monocultures are bad, so I don't think people should only use Chrome-based browsers. Google once tried to do ads without going down the wrong path, but that clearly hasn't worked out. I think that Firefox Quantum is a better alternative.
  - yuhong 8y ago
    Yea, that was what my essay/overview was about, including tracing these problems back to Larry/Sergey. It is probably worth posting a link here: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/09/google-doubleclick-mozilla-overview_92.html http://yuhongbao.blogspot.com/2018/09/google-doubleclick-moz...
- matheusmoreira 8y ago
  How effective is ungoogled-chromium at removing Google from the browser?

18pfsmt 8y ago

Have you looked at this project? https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

JoshMnem 8y ago
I've seen it, but Chromium is fundamentally a Google product and it still has some of Chrome's problems. If we want future generations to experience technology freedom, we should avoid monocultures.
sincerely 8y ago
That has the same issue as Waterfox and other projects where you lose out on quick fixes for discovered exploits.

pymai 8y ago

there are other chromium based browsers like vivaldi and brave that might disable a lot of the google crap but i couldn't be certain of the top of my head