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?
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?
deleted by creator
Neat. I'm going to check out Ungoogled-chromium.