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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by rdsubhas on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @02:03PM (#22057290)
Chromium is not the same as Google Chrome. Chromium is open source and vendor neutral. Google Chrome adds the Google stuff on top of it.

Both chromium and Firefox can be customized and vendor branded (see the countless privacy oriented browsers built on top of Firefox).

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by ndarwincorn on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:06PM (#22057915)
> Chromium is...vendor neutral.

That's pretty misleading. When you want to sync state across Chromium installs, you use a Google account, and that's really just scratching the surface.

Chromium comes with quite a bit of Google baked-in.

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by endothrowho333 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @07:11PM (#22060339)
Chromium still has Google endpoints.

Iridium was developed specifically to degoogle all attempts at phoning home.

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