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by faitswulff 2350 days ago
Cynical thought: in no way am I claiming this was the only reason for Microsoft choosing Blink, but it’s probably easier to find and replace Google analytics APIs with Microsoft endpoints than it is to add them into a code base after the fact.
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iudqnolq 2350 days ago
Can you link to a Google Analytics API call in Chromium? It's OSS.

Edit: Chromium connects to Google servers to update extensions and for captive portal detection. Firefox does pretty much the same.

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wbkang 2350 days ago
Search for UMA metrics.
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iudqnolq 2349 days ago
Firefox does something similar, but calls it Firefox Health Reports. See https://blog.mozilla.org/metrics/fhr-faq/

(note that I think there's nothing wrong with this at all, just pointing out that this isn't chromium-specific)

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rdsubhas 2350 days ago
Chromium is not the same as Google Chrome. Chromium is open source and vendor neutral. Google Chrome adds the Google stuff on top of it.

Both chromium and Firefox can be customized and vendor branded (see the countless privacy oriented browsers built on top of Firefox).

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ndarwincorn 2350 days ago
> Chromium is...vendor neutral.

That's pretty misleading. When you want to sync state across Chromium installs, you use a Google account, and that's really just scratching the surface.

Chromium comes with quite a bit of Google baked-in.

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endothrowho333 2350 days ago
Chromium still has Google endpoints.

Iridium was developed specifically to degoogle all attempts at phoning home.

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