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Chromium is open source and Firefox collects quite a bit of data by default as well.
by encryptluks2 6y ago
Chromium is open source and Firefox collects quite a bit of data by default as well.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoChromium is open source, but almost nobody uses it. Almost everyone uses either of the proprietary forks, Chrome and Edge.
- encryptluks2 6y agoNot if you use Linux, and Chromium is also in the Chocolatey repo and Homebrew.
- URfejk 6y agoAnd on Android you can use Ungoogled Chromium.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoPeople who use Linux to browse the web, or install browsers with Chocolately or Homebrew, are all an extreme minority of browser users. Also, this post is about iOS...
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- smt1 6y agoChromium is Chrome with a lot of code ripped out. Specifically most things that interact with google, widevyne, etc.
- dblohm7 6y ago(Mozilla employee) Yeah, but how much of what Firefox collects is PII? (And no, Telemetry is not PII)