Do the people who use Chromium really sign into their Google account? If that's the case, you can just as well use Chrome itself.
My assumption was that Chromium users would want a browser without all of Google's cruft.
My assumption was that Chromium users would want a browser without all of Google's cruft.
I really don't understand why this is so surprising, if not Google's server with a google account, where?
And yes, you could just as well use chrome, but Chromium is entirely open source, while Chrome is not. It may not matter to everyone, but it matters to some people. So yes you could get the same functionality from Chrome, but it has different non-functional characteristics which matter to some people.
> My assumption was that Chromium users would want a browser without all of Google's cruft.
The "cruft" like bookmark syncing, password syncing, etc, has to come from somewhere. Google was is good a place as any to me.
More like: All that data is sent to the biggest advertisement company in the world. One has to wonder if they go through all the hassle of browser development for altruistic reasons or to make money off the gathered data?
It is baffling to me that something being open-source is more important than not letting your data be harvested by advertisers, potentially law enforcement, etc.
I don't understand the choice, and I guess that shines through. To me almost anything is better than Google for privacy, but it wasn't meant as criticism.
I do think it is as good a place as any for those things, and you can encrypt bookmarks and passwords that are synced to google servers: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/165139?co=GENIE.Pla...