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by palisade 2540 days ago
You can actually grab non-google Chromium. This site keeps track of the latest stable and nightly builds and how to download them directly: https://chromium.woolyss.com/ You won't receive automatic updates, or be able to login to your google chrome account, etc. The theme is slightly different in color but it works exactly like normal Chrome. Chromium is the open source project that Chrome is based on, originally it was a web browser built by the KDE team for Linux.

I disagree that Chromium is evil. Personally, I use Firefox because I like it better. Though, on Android I use Brave which is based on Chromium and has ad blocking, privacy, and anti-fingerprinting built-in. Just a really quick easy way to get all of that in a simple no fuss package.
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takeda 2540 days ago
What Chromium implements is still controlled by Google.

For example the recent controversy about restricting API for ad blockers will affect Chromium as well.

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0815test 2540 days ago
If the "non-google" part is important to you, you'll probably want Ungoogled-Chromium or Iridium.
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