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> Do the people who use Chromium really sign into their Google account? If that's the case, you can just as well use Chrome itself. I really don't understand w
by cheph 6y ago
> Do the people who use Chromium really sign into their Google account? If that's the case, you can just as well use Chrome itself.
I really don't understand why this is so surprising, if not Google's server with a google account, where?
And yes, you could just as well use chrome, but Chromium is entirely open source, while Chrome is not. It may not matter to everyone, but it matters to some people. So yes you could get the same functionality from Chrome, but it has different non-functional characteristics which matter to some people.
> My assumption was that Chromium users would want a browser without all of Google's cruft.
The "cruft" like bookmark syncing, password syncing, etc, has to come from somewhere. Google was is good a place as any to me.
- ruph123 6y ago> The "cruft" like bookmark syncing, password syncing, etc, has to come from somewhere. Google was is good a place as any to me. More like: All that data is sent to the biggest advertisement company in the world. One has to wonder if they go through all the hassle of browser development for altruistic reasons or to make money off the gathered data? It is baffling to me that something being open-source is more important than not letting your data be harvested by advertisers, potentially law enforcement, etc.
- 0xy 6y agoChromium is "open source", but it's still thoroughly infested with Google backdoors including X-Client-Data to DoubleClick, address bar autosuggest and other phone home telemetry.
- KSteffensen 6y agoI guess you belong to the small intersection of people who care about open source but not privacy.
- schwartzworld 6y agoThat's not fair at all. I doubt there are many who care about open source but don't make any compromises at all for the sake of convenience. We all fall somewhere in the middle. If you have the time and ability to self-host all your own services, and only use 100% open source for 100% of your computing needs, more power to you. You are in the minority though.
- KSteffensen 6y agoI was commenting that it's rare to find someone who thinks open source is important and therefore uses Chromium, not Chrome, but still thinks Google is 'as good a place as any' for passwords and bookmarks. Usually people who care about open source are big on privacy also. I don't understand the choice, and I guess that shines through. To me almost anything is better than Google for privacy, but it wasn't meant as criticism.
- cheph 6y ago> but still thinks Google is 'as good a place as any' for passwords and bookmarks. I do think it is as good a place as any for those things, and you can encrypt bookmarks and passwords that are synced to google servers: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/165139?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en#passphrase https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/165139?co=GENIE.Pla...