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You do realize Google Chrome is closed source, right? > Unlike Chromium, Chrome is not open-source, so its binaries are licensed as freeware under the Google C
by bloblaw 5y ago
You do realize Google Chrome is closed source, right?
> Unlike Chromium, Chrome is not open-source, so its binaries are licensed as freeware under the Google Chrome Terms of Service.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Branding_and_licensing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Brandin...
I greatly prefer Firefox to Edge or Chrome, but unfortunately the world we live in is where some websites only work in Chrome, or corporate functionality requires plugins that only work in Chrome.
- e12e 5y agoHence, I run chromium, not chrome. (ed: and Firefox).
- toyg 5y agoUsing Chromium is a bit like buying chicken meat from a farmer because it gives you that nice feeling of "local fare" and "doing good"; meanwhile, the farmer sources that meat from the same gigantic poultry business that supplies all supermarkets, with chickens kept in squalid conditions.
- ranguna 5y agoI don't think that analogy is very good because your can't open source chickens.. Either way, I recommend librewolf, it's an amazing up to date Firefox fork with all the telemetry stripped out.
- toyg 5y agoYeah, it's just about the fact that the overall negative system continues to be enabled by supposedly-virtuous actions. Google working in the open doesn't change the fact that in practice they can (and do) steer wherever they want, and promoting the monoculture enables their dominance and abuse of user-data.