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Small info piece: Chrome isn't open source.

Otherwise I agree (even if it means agreeing with Peter Thiel in this case).

Well shiver me timbers, if that isn't a hoot.

Maybe my vernacular is off, "source available" ?

ah "licensed freeware"

chromium is open source, chrome is chromium + proprietary stuff added on top

99% of its source is open. I wonder what you think of open source applications that make API calls into closed source cloud systems?

Where does that 99% figure come from?

I think it's 100% open source chromium, minus some unknown percentage that's closed source surveillance blobs = ~99%. That's the maths I'm inferring.