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    [–] notsle@kzoo.to 133 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

    @yesman @pmjv

    [–] Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

    Can somebody explain something stupid to me? What exactly is wrong with Chromium? Does Google have backdoor access to anyone who's running a Chromium based program or something?

    [–] grue@lemmy.world 17 points 3 hours ago

    What exactly is wrong with Chromium?

    It gives Google hegemony over web standards.

    [–] dgdft@lemmy.world 107 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

    They abuse the fuck out of their monopoly, basically.

    They made changes to limit the usefulness of adblockers (Manifest V3), they tried to force a remote attestation API (WEI API) a few years back that would let them do stuff like fully block users who aren’t running locked-down operating systems from using online banking software or accessing Youtube, they added many chrome-specific web APIs that are extremely helpful for fingerprinting and lock users into the chrome ecosystem, etc.

    And if you’re running stock chromium, there’s a fuckton of telemetry calling home to Google servers constantly.

    [–] wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 8 hours ago

    And browser is such a complex piece of software that you cannot just fork it easily and change those things within a weekend with a bunch of unpaid volunteers.

    [–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 hours ago

    So basicaly everything that made it through the android-google ecosystem also made it through chromium, is my take

    [–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 61 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

    As a web dev I hate the trend of websites relying on chromium-specific quirks, there are a handful of sites I need to use which refuse to work in any non-chromium browser, and customer support will always tell you to just use chrome as if you're not a normal person for using Firefox. So yeah what's wrong with chromium to me is that it's the new internet explorer when it comes to web standards. Websites and large businesses can afford to just not care if they are following web standards as long as it works in chrome, and if you have a problem it's your fault for not using chrome.

    [–] almost1337@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 hours ago

    Yeah, we're back to the days of websites only supporting Internet Explorer because of proprietary features and weird quirks.

    [–] Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 hours ago

    That's valid too. Thanks for pointing that out