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Re:Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform di... by 3np on Friday September 08, 2023 @03:57AM (#37430812)
What's the point? It's open source. So some people naturally spend the effort to maintain something like https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

    In descending order of significance (i.e. most important objective first):

    1. ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services.
    2. ungoogled-chromium retains the default Chromium experience as closely as possible.
       Unlike other Chromium forks that have their own visions of a web browser, ungoogled-chromium is essentially a drop-in replacement for Chromium.
    3. ungoogled-chromium features tweaks to enhance privacy, control, and transparency.
       However, almost all of these features must be manually activated or enabled. For more details, see Feature Overview.
Re:Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform di... by est on Friday September 08, 2023 @04:22AM (#37430984)
> It's open source

Harder to distribute than unzip-and-run binaries.

Re:Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform di... by LoganDark on Friday September 08, 2023 @06:59AM (#37432025)
ungoogled-chromium literally offers unzip-and-run binaries - it's what I use on a day-to-day basis.
Re:Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform di... by arcanemachiner on Friday September 08, 2023 @08:18AM (#37432559)
There AppImages for Linux. Can't speak for the other OSs.