[TekMol]

    it should be much easier to contribute to Debian now

But aren't they constantly getting new versions of Chromium from Google? I think going into the Debian Repo of Chromium and changing it would not be a viable path, right? You either have to convince Google to accept your changes too (Good luck with them accepting the de-googling haha) or you would have to consider a life of constantly de-googling new versions of Chromium.

[zlatan_todoric]

Debian maintains its set of patches often (quite easy to handle with quilt in debian/patches). We get upstream source from upstream of course and use our patches until they get accepted (we don't force upstream to do so) when we of course remove obsolete ones.