@fflintstone Two points...
Point 1: Un-googling Chromium:
Chromium is still quite "Googled" - relying on, and making requests to, Google services. See the description in this README of the
Point 2: Collective, rather than merely individual, choice:
What's necessary is not for individuals, who keep aprised of privacy concerns, to switch away from Firefox by default. It should be a Debian project decision to do so. Given Firefox' trajectory, and assuming there's no about-face (which there may or may not be) - the default browser on Debian installations should be switched to something else. Ungoogle-chromium, IceWeasel, GNU IceCat, whatever.
Also, and regardless of which browser becomes the default, I wish someone (or "Debian" in general) would take it upon themselves to maintain ungoogled-chromium packages. Possibly even replace the chromium package on Debian with that.
Point 1: Un-googling Chromium:
Chromium is still quite "Googled" - relying on, and making requests to, Google services. See the description in this README of the
ungoogled-chromium repo. So, if you're considering chromium, make it ungoogled-chromium instead. A bit more challenging to set that up though. Point 2: Collective, rather than merely individual, choice:
What's necessary is not for individuals, who keep aprised of privacy concerns, to switch away from Firefox by default. It should be a Debian project decision to do so. Given Firefox' trajectory, and assuming there's no about-face (which there may or may not be) - the default browser on Debian installations should be switched to something else. Ungoogle-chromium, IceWeasel, GNU IceCat, whatever.
Also, and regardless of which browser becomes the default, I wish someone (or "Debian" in general) would take it upon themselves to maintain ungoogled-chromium packages. Possibly even replace the chromium package on Debian with that.
Statistics: Posted by einpoklum — 2025-03-06 12:04