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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Google Chrome a "rounding error" — 17 years later, Internet Explorer is dead, and Microsoft Edge can barely catch up | Google CEO Sundar Pichai admits that B… (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, not going with chrome means only one massive corp is stealing your data, not two.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I thought Chromium still phoned home to Google

[–] Hund@feddit.nu 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It does, and there's nothing you can do about it either, other than, obviously, switching to an alternative web browser.

[–] Opal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

All chromium based do, even something like Helium can't remove that?

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Unless they specifically say they don't, they do.