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Chromium is the opensource project Google based Chrome on, there should be no need to explicitly stress it's Google free, Chromium is vanilla until google's API
by notum 5y ago
Chromium is the opensource project Google based Chrome on, there should be no need to explicitly stress it's Google free, Chromium is vanilla until google's APIs are added in. I guess the name persists for additional clarity though.
I personally use Henry's chrlauncher:
https://github.com/henrypp/chrlauncher https://github.com/henrypp/chrlauncher
Some trust is needed but if given it automatically checks for builds on an automated build server and updates Chromium before launching it.
- redmare80 5y agoChromium contains google services, and significant google integration. It does not contain any of the closed source components, including some security components and DRM.
- anaisbetts 5y agoThis is Factually Inaccurate, there are many services in Chromium code that require Google services (and a special API key for them that is effectively impossible to use at scale)
- funnyflamigo 5y agoThis is absolutely not the case. You can find some of the some of the patches here but there's more patches in the parent dir - https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/tree/master/patches/core/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/tree/master/pa... There's a lot of telemetry, and a few other services such as time checking. The features you're mentioning include the user syncing, translation, and DRM platforms (though you can add widevine to chromium, you cant add the others). Those are not the only things that call home to google.