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“It also features some changes” says to me that this isn’t a safe fork to recommend to others. Rather than simply releasing a de-badged instance of the public C
by floatingatoll 8y ago
“It also features some changes” says to me that this isn’t a safe fork to recommend to others. Rather than simply releasing a de-badged instance of the public Chrome product, it additionally includes “editorial” comments in the form of turning various switches on or off. Use at your own risk.
- chii 8y agoif they transparently list out the changes (rather than force someone to diff the source), then it's OK.
- dj43nq 8y agoI'm with this. I'd actually like a fork of chromium with no googley phone home features. Maybe put timeouts on cookies and bunch of other things.
- ehsankia 8y agoIs it though? Security is a fickle thing. Unless there's a a big enough community behind it with security experts examining the changes, I'm not sure I'd trust some random person's changes to not introduce any exploits.
- floatingatoll 8y agoNope, my objection is to the mindset of making more changes than are necessary to release it. If their opinion had been restricted to “for removing Google” rather than also “and some other stuff”, it’d inspire a lot more trust in their long-term intentions. Being able to see diffs does not improve my trust in their judgement or reasoning.
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