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by btown 850 days ago
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium may be of interest!
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ozymandias1337 850 days ago
Thorium maeby more interesting!
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tentacleuno 847 days ago
I'm dissuaded from using Thorium after the news of the developer including... questionable material in their builds[0], and checked into CVS no less.

[0]: https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/issues/147

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ozymandias1337 844 days ago
Just to clarify I am not recommending Thorium!
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DANmode 849 days ago
What's their patch interval usually like?
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ozymandias1337 849 days ago
Last year's releases (2023) were lagging behind.⏎ Only this yr's releases (2024) are in a timely fashion so far.⏎ However, being forewarned is being forearmed! ⏎ Both (Chromium/Thorium) browsers upstream releases are maintained by Google & both browsers contain various forms of spyware and/or telemetry! ⏎

MOAR:-

thorium.rocks ⏎

github.com/Alex313031/Thorium/releases ⏎

On a personal basis I prefer Firefox & Pals over Chromium & FRIENDS!!! ⏎ The last time I was used by Chromium was 7 years ago!!! ⏎ Carpe Deim!

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ozymandias1337 849 days ago
BTW,

The LATEST Thorium release dropped just last week on 20th Feb which just so happened to be its 56th Release / 30th version birthday!

& IF anyone is interested heresa Firefox Fork:-

github.com/Alex313031/Mercury/releases ⏎

However itsa out-of-date release (v.122.0.2) versus tha LATEST (v.123) Firefox.

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slater 849 days ago
What's with the "⏎"?
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DANmode 847 days ago
To distract from the nonspecific answer :D
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ozymandias1337 849 days ago
Also for some reason Mercury Alpha v124.0a1 is available for mac in .dmg
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dylan604 850 days ago
chrome != chromium.

it is the googley additions to chromium that makes chrome

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DANmode 849 days ago
What's missing in Chromium to run the posted project?
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dylan604 849 days ago
how do you know the difference from a closed source project and an open source project?
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DANmode 849 days ago
Did you reply to the wrong thread?
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dylan604 849 days ago
no. am I wrong in thinking that the Chrome source code is not available? Chrome is built on top of Chromium. Chrome != Chromium. So how do you know what the difference between these products are if you can't see it?
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ozymandias1337 849 days ago
Widevine & assorted scum.
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tentacleuno 842 days ago
This has absolutely nothing to do with the article.
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