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by kijin 4423 days ago
The whole point of the "Chrome is proprietary" argument is that we don't know exactly what Google added to Chromium.

Since the diff between Chrome and Chromium is not open-source, there's no way to verify that Google only added what they claim to have added. For example, we wouldn't know if they slipped in an NSA backdoor along with a bunch of plugins.

"Trust but Verify": https://blog.mozilla.org/privacy/2014/01/14/trust-but-verify...