>"IMPORTANT: These binaries are provided by anyone who are willing to build and submit them. Because these binaries are not necessarily reproducible, authenticity cannot be guaranteed."
Safety not guaranteed. Just how I like my browser.
Yes, but they also come with Google's release engineering, so at least you can be somewhat confident they've not been subverted in some way not intended by the authors of the browser.
The way Ungoogled Chromium is distributed is way too yolo for my tastes. Would be nice if it had reproducible builds or was packaged into a reputable distro or thirdparty repo.
- Many dependencies of dev projects are simply source files which will be compiled on-the-fly. Or at least that's the case in the languages I normally work with.
Safety not guaranteed. Just how I like my browser.