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by matthewmacleod 4376 days ago
What's not open about Chromium, out of interest?
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yellowapple 4376 days ago
It's still pretty tied to Google; the routine reminders to "sign in with your Google account!" are one aspect of that.

That said, it's still pretty open as well, and being FOSS, it's certainly doable for there to be a fork (if there isn't one already) that strips out everything Google-related.

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unfunco 4376 days ago
You're thinking of Google Chrome, Chromium[0] is the open-source project behind Google Chrome, they're different, and Chromium is tied less to Google.

[0]: http://www.chromium.org/

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yellowapple 4372 days ago
No, I'm thinking of Chromium. I use Chromium rather regularly. Last I checked, the various prompts for me to log in with my Google account when starting up a fresh install of Chromium aren't my hallucinations.
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