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If you're using Windows, what's the point of using Chrome if you already have Edge?

You're already sending data to MS anyway




What's the point of using either of those when you could use an ungoogled chromium build?

(I use Firefox, but if I were to use a chromium browser it wouldn't be Edge or Chrome...)


In case you want a real answer: battery life.


Googled Chromium has better battery life than Ungoogled Chromium? That seems like a dubious claim.


No, Edge does. It actually is the best performing and battery life browser on Windows.


Because you gotta trust people behind ungoogled Chromium

I don't know them, so I don't trust them.


Chromium is open source, and so you can see what the changelog is etc.. You don't need to trust the people when you can read the source yourself ?

also "ungoogled Chromium" - The process is Chrome is Googled Chromium.

Chromium was a thing before Google-Chrome..

Edit: My mistake: Chrome and Chromium were release the same time.


Yes, I'm definitely going to audit some giant as hell CPP code base (diffs) every four weeks.

I'd rather write my own browser from scratch


> Yes, I'm definitely going to audit some giant as hell CPP code base (diffs) every four weeks.

I've had this discussion with other people too, just because you don't want to doesn't mean you can't. So your point of suspecting something nefarious is moot for me until you can back it up.


If I do already use Windows, then I'm already relying on MS

Using Edge doesn't change much, meanwhile using ungoogled Chromium means that I have to trust additional actors

Additionally MS inserting e.g "backdoor" into Edge could cost them a lot of in PR damages meanwhile what if ungoogled chromium inserted some kind of "backdoor"?

I don't even know people who maintain it, so I wouldn't even be able to break their windows or throw eggs at them


> I don't even know people who maintain it, so I wouldn't even be able to break their windows or throw eggs at them

I hear your point on this, it's pretty hard to put your faith in a browser that updates regularly and not just for schema reasons. But you seem okay with Edge..

> Using Edge doesn't change much, meanwhile using ungoogled Chromium means that I have to trust additional actors

This is where I'm confused.

> Additionally MS inserting e.g "backdoor" into Edge could cost them a lot of in PR damages

I'm not an M$ hater, they've been incredible. dotNet core is a gift. GoPilot is a good use of whatever we're doing here. But why do you think if they could work a 'backdoor' (without leaks from employees) would actually matter. Their fine would be minimal.. See FB

I think we've come full circle. I'm defending your point that Edge might be just another 'Okay' browser.


> Using Edge doesn't change much, meanwhile using ungoogled Chromium means that I have to trust additional actors

Because I'm already on Windows, thus I already trust Microsoft

>I'm not an M$ hater, they've been incredible. dotNet core is a gift. GoPilot is a good use of whatever we're doing here. But why do you think if they could work a 'backdoor' (without leaks from employees) would actually matter. Their fine would be minimal.. See FB

On the other hand take a look at Intel - they had security issues and not even intentional and there was a lot of dmg to their brand due to all those CPU related vulns in last years


> Chromium was a thing before Google-Chrome

no it wasn't.


Sorry that's actually my mistake, I was thinking of something else. (Android)

They were both launched the same period, but chromium was the 'trimmed' down open source version.


> also "ungoogled Chromium" - The process is Chrome is Googled Chromium.

You can download Chromium[0], but people tend to be referring to the project called "Ungoogled Chromium"[1] to remove any calls to Google domains, eg. safe browsing, which are still present in Chromium.

0: https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium/

1: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium


But we do know people behind Microsoft are not to be trusted with our privacy... See PRISM and their data collection practices.


The thing is about what data MS wants and what bad actor in ungoogled chromium would want

e.g MS doesn't want to steal money from my card


Indeed, they will lock you in to get it legally.


Waiting for the /sarcasm tag




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