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  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Chromium is open source but isn’t chrome a closed source down stream project? Kinda like how Google’s RCS is in no way open despite all their BS ads bitching about iMessage?

    • LWD@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      You’re completely correct. Chromium includes the badly named “Privacy Sandbox”, and much more proprietary Google stuff. It’s a bit of a chore for independent developers to strip out the Google code from Chromium.

      Chrome itself is built atop Chromium and throws in even more closed-source stuff.

      I hope regulators start paying attention to Google, but Chrome has been the dominant web browser for a while now and Google has basically had free play with web standards up until this point, so I’m not holding my breath.