Also: the most invasive parts of the analytics / tracking / privacy-invading aspects of Google Chrome are closed source.
Indeed, it’s quite concerning how little this is discussed or talked about in a lens that’s interesting to the average person.
You can use Chromium.
Sort of.
Browse Against the Machine | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14439098 (May 2017)
> brynedwards: There are also patches for Chromium that remove Google integration and improve its privacy features (with links) | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14439668
So for browsers controlling meta data on user end has limited value without rules and laws around user data.