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I might be out of touch, wasn't Chromium itself originally "ungoogled Chrome"?

• serial_dev 2y ago
  Chromium still includes features and integrations with Google, and telemetry going to Google.
• matvore 2y ago
  Chromium is merely Chrome with only the open source parts. Chromium components are still implemented in a Google-controlled repo. So it has Google-oriented features and defaults.
  • MuffinFlavored 2y ago
    1. Google Chrome 2. Chromium 3. Ungoogled Chrome? 4. Ungoogled Chromium? 5. Googled Chromium? How does it differ from regular Chromium?
    • matvore 2y ago
      Note I work for Google and I've contributed to Chromium, though I'm not necessarily an expert on Chromium forks. 1. Google Chrome This is offical Chrome you download from google.com and also comes on ChromeOS devices. 2. Chromium This is what you get when someone builds Chromium from the official repo without access to confidential source. Source is confidential for various reasons, and some code that seems should be confidential actually isn't, like Android-for-ChromeOS integration, some of which is here: https://crsrc.org/c/chrome/browser/ash/arc/ https://crsrc.org/c/chrome/browser/ash/arc/ 3. Ungoogled Chrome? This seems a contradiction of terms. Only Google can build Chrome, so they are not likely to e.g. set Bing as default or remove Google password manager support. 4. Ungoogled Chromium? A particular project run by a particular team which forks Chromium and removes pro-Google behavior and settings. 5. Googled Chromium? I don't know the original context of the use of this term, but possibly this just refers to official Chrome.