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Chromium is open source - which makes me suspicious of claims that the browser is nefariously tracking your every move without pointing to code. Here's a searc

Chromium is open source - which makes me suspicious of claims that the browser is nefariously tracking your every move without pointing to code. Here's a search for the 'client_id' that the author was afraid of: http://codesearch.google.com/codesearch?as_q=client_id&vert=chromium http://codesearch.google.com/codesearch?as_q=client_id&v... It looks like a likely possibility is that the author is syncing his profile to google - in which case it makes sense that some ID needs to be stored in order to figure out which sync updates are coming from which browser.

eiji 16y ago
Please help me out here. I never understood why people always argue that Chromium is open source. Sure, Chromium is, but not Google Chrome. From what I understand, the changes for Chrome from the Chromium source are not obvious. It is not by accident, that it takes me 10 secs to find a Google Chrome download, but to find a Chromium download ready for install on all platforms? I doubt that Average Joe will either understand the difference, and/or find a Chromium download.