I don't see how Chromium solves any of the issues he was complaining about. It's not like it rips out the basic designs of the browser, which are still tightly tied to Google.

Chromium and Chrome are identical except for one compile flag (which means you can at least check it yourself):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3034755

SRWare distributes a Chromium build called Iron that strips out privacy problems.

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php

I used to recommend Iron but I don't anymore. I became increasingly uncomfortable with the lack of documentation and lack of transparency in the project. They delivered their source code as two code dumps on rapidshare last time I checked. Something just doesn't feel right at all.

http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam may be worth checking out, as well.

Thanks. That confirms my suspicions.