On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 11:47:05AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Adam Borowski (kilob...@angband.pl): > > > > I guess I am switching to Chrome. Another sad day for FOSS. > > > > You don't want that pile of spyware, it lacks any basic privacy extensions > > Firefox has. > > At _least_ try Chromium before adopting a proprietary browser (Chrome). > I don't know why so many Linux users think _only_ of the proprietary > Google Chrome Web browser and not the open source Chromium browser of > which Google Chrome is an odd and untrustworthy variant? It's > dispiriting.
Most people seem to be using these two names interchangeably, even though, as you rightfully point, they do differ. I did not go into a tangent of correcting this as it was not relevant to bashing PulseAudio. Obviously, I'm not going to install such a massive backdoor on any non-contained machine. Heck, even on that test Windows partition I have but boot once in half a year it's something-Iron rather than unmodified Chrome. But, chromium as in Debian/Devuan is not good either: https://bugs.debian.org/792580 claims it phones home even in "incognito" mode -- and not just to update extensions or some such, but to freaking Google Analytics. > The Chromium extensions programming interface is impoverished compared > to XUL / XPCOM, but uMatrix and uBlock Origin are decent. These don't seem anywhere as functional as Adblock (real, not WebExtension) or Request Policy. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ I've read an article about how lively happy music boosts ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ productivity. You can read it, too, you just need the ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ right music while doing so. I recommend Skepticism ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ (funeral doom metal). _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
