sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agoFormer Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Google Chrome a "rounding error" — 17 years later, Internet Explorer is dead, and Microsoft Edge can barely catch up | Google CEO Sundar Pichai admits that B…www.windowscentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down17
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minus-squarethejml@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·20 hours agoHonestly, not going with chrome means only one massive corp is stealing your data, not two.
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·19 hours agoI thought Chromium still phoned home to Google
minus-squareHund@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·17 hours agoIt does, and there’s nothing you can do about it either, other than, obviously, switching to an alternative web browser.
minus-squareOpal@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·13 hours agoAll chromium based do, even something like Helium can’t remove that?
minus-squareHund@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoHelium should be fine. They’re, to my understanding, a fork of ungoogled-chromium, and they seem to proxy all calls to Google for you. It shold be a safe enough web browser for ‘regular’ people who care about their privacy.
minus-squarebadgermurphy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 hours agoUnless they specifically say they don’t, they do.
Honestly, not going with chrome means only one massive corp is stealing your data, not two.
I thought Chromium still phoned home to Google
It does, and there’s nothing you can do about it either, other than, obviously, switching to an alternative web browser.
All chromium based do, even something like Helium can’t remove that?
Helium should be fine. They’re, to my understanding, a fork of ungoogled-chromium, and they seem to proxy all calls to Google for you. It shold be a safe enough web browser for ‘regular’ people who care about their privacy.
Unless they specifically say they don’t, they do.