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Disable transmission of partial queries, keywords, metrics to central servers without consent.

Builds reproducible, modifications auditable.

Plus you get late updates for security fixes and new ones because of the "secure" additions to the code.

I will pass.

Couldn't those recommendations be pushed to the Chromium project, without the need to create yet another brand of Chromium?

I second that "Chromium" used more in Linux distros.