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If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was confused when looking at the map, how come China is Chrome when google is not even allowed in China. Then I remember all those ad-riddled Chinese browsers that are based on Chrome.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They're likely based on Chromium, which is what Google Chrome is based on. Chromium is open-source. Chrome is not.

Not that China cares about US copyright. But it's still easier to just use open-source code rather than creating a browser from scratch or cracking open the code of a proprietary browser.