UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency

Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr... by ocdtrekkie on Sunday September 25, 2016 @07:44PM (#12578099)

So much this. While on Firefox, Google only pulls that on you once, they constantly reoffer it to Edge users on a nearly weekly basis. And recently, they actually made the bar bigger and more obtrusive.

I filed an issue on the Chromium bug tracker, they assigned someone to look into it, and of course, nothing has been said since.

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Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr... by Springtime on Sunday September 25, 2016 @10:15PM (#12578779)

> While on Firefox, Google only pulls that on you once

To this day, and for years, I continue to receive these messages from Google sites informing me to upgrade to Chrome. I've even had them pop-up on Chromium.

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Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr... by CaptSpify on Monday September 26, 2016 @10:55AM (#12582322)

I actually put in a ublock rule to filter out that message because I was so tired of seeing it all the time. Definitely not a one-time thing.

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Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr... by sunnyps on Sunday September 25, 2016 @07:59PM (#12578174)

That's because it's not a Chromium bug. You should file feedback with the product you're using, most (all?) Google products have a way of doing this.

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Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr... by ocdtrekkie on Sunday September 25, 2016 @08:28PM (#12578302)

I am pretty sure the only way to send feedback to the Chrome team, other than the Chromium bug tracker (which is pretty much the same people), is to send feedback from within Chrome.

Obviously, I don't have Chrome, since my issue is them pestering me to install Chrome. Which I'm not going to do.

On the other hand, if Google wants to prevent their reputation from sinking to the level of "install the Ask Toolbar", one of the Googlers on the Chromium bug tracker will see that it is dealt with.

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Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr... by heroprotagonist on Monday September 26, 2016 @09:11AM (#12581476)

Just to clarify, the product you should be reporting this on is Google Search, or whatever site you're trying to use the browser on that's giving you the annoying reminder. Not the browser itself.

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Re:UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, contr... by nathancahill on Sunday September 25, 2016 @08:00PM (#12578181)

Chromium != Google. Here it's Google that is pushing Chrome.

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