I don't think this is true. It's Chrome minus all the proprietary parts. That's why it comes without codecs and can be downloaded from the base Debian repositories without adding the "non-free" ones. Debian is super strict about proprietary code.
https://wiki.debian.org/Chromium
Chromium is an open source web browser
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/chromium
Chromium is an open-source graphical web browser
The terms proprietary and open-source are completely mutually exclusive afaik. Am I missing something?
still has proprietary code from google and phones home plus it helps chrome's monopoly
If you've not running on an entirely blob free system dont judge me
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:ohnoes:
but that isn't the point, if you have to use chromium for some reason then go with ungoogled chromium or another fork
I don't think this is true. It's Chrome minus all the proprietary parts. That's why it comes without codecs and can be downloaded from the base Debian repositories without adding the "non-free" ones. Debian is super strict about proprietary code.
https://wiki.debian.org/Chromium
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/chromium
The terms proprietary and open-source are completely mutually exclusive afaik. Am I missing something?
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Neat. I'm going to check out Ungoogled-chromium.