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Re:Cached Chrome Top Million Websites by themoonisachees on Saturday December 31, 2022 @11:42AM (#34198101)
Do Chinese people use chrome? One would think the download page is blocked as well, so the demographic for chrome users should be way smaller.

Also to consider: China uses in-app browsing a lot, with interactive experiences very similar to websites built right in the bilibili/ali/wechat apps.

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Re:Cached Chrome Top Million Websites by moffkalast on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:30PM (#34199205)
> in-app browsing

But that's also just chromium isn't it, much like a PWA? Unless they made something of their own.

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Re:Cached Chrome Top Million Websites by jfoster on Saturday December 31, 2022 @11:21PM (#34203576)
But does chromium phone home with this data? Surely not, I would've thought?
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Re:Cached Chrome Top Million Websites by est on Saturday December 31, 2022 @10:14PM (#34203213)
> One would think the download page is blocked as well

Contrary to popular belief, Google only pulled Search business out of China. The rest of services is still hosted on Google.cn inside China. To download Chrome:

$ curl -svk 'https://www.google.cn/intl/zh-CN/chrome/'

* Trying 180.163.150.34...

* TCP_NODELAY set

* Connected to www.google.cn (180.163.150.34) port 443 (#0)

However the "Make searches and browsing better (Sends URLs of pages you visit to Google)" data won't be collected, because the connection would be blocked.

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