GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world to Google@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoGoogle can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usagewww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1160arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: hardware@lemmy.world
arrow-up1158arrow-down1external-linkGoogle can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usagewww.theregister.comGreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world to Google@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: hardware@lemmy.world
minus-squareEpheralinkfedilinkarrow-up21·4 months agoGoogle has pretty firm control over the Chromium code base, so not much reason for them to degoogle it. Presumably the worst stuff is not publicized to avoid PR disasters, but just “Google does evil” is hardly a news story. Ungoogled-chromium has a decent list of things they consider degoogle-worthy: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/README.md#feature-overview
Google has pretty firm control over the Chromium code base, so not much reason for them to degoogle it. Presumably the worst stuff is not publicized to avoid PR disasters, but just “Google does evil” is hardly a news story.
Ungoogled-chromium has a decent list of things they consider degoogle-worthy: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/README.md#feature-overview