I guess it's the pretty colors?
I guess it's the pretty colors?
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Firefox logo looks better anyway.
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And the browser is better than this Chromium bullshit
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Used to, anyway.
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RIP little paw
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Which still is based on Firefox, like down if other great derivatives. All of those are great, and mostly up to personal preference.
The important step is to get people out of the chromium universe in the first place. Sadly, Google puts their poison in at the well (=chromium), so a lot of formerly fantastic chromium-based secure and private browsers are now failing.
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What are these other two browsers? Please elaborate!
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Couldn't agree more
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Actually, what is the reason that Firefox seems to be preferred over Chromium? Is it the license? The control Alphabet has over it?
One has to agree that there is a lot more money poured into chromium, the code is more modern and easier embeddable, it is more feature-complete.
Though, it's good to have two independent browser engines and a non-profit (+for-profit subsidiary) dedicated to a free, open, user-focussed browser.
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when i was in high school chrome had lots of school restrictions but chromium didnt. life saver for me, guy who did nothing in high school
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Schools IT departments all over the world are doing society a massive favor by indirectly teaching children how to bypass censorship. 80% of what I know about IP and NAT came from finding different ways to bypass my school's firewall haha
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one of my ways of bypassing the schools block on reddit was so stupidly easy
ssl error comes up trying to go to reddit. delete ssl from the link bar (cant remember its name) and boom reddit works
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Nice job on the half chrome logo on the second panel
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Thank you! You noticed! I like to put that extra little bit of effort into my memes to make them stand out
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Green Is My Pepper 👌
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Or use Firefox, a browser not made by the same guys who want to create a monopoly on web browsers.
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Don't they receive millions from Google specifically?
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Yeah, but they do a lot of good stuff for the open internet, and they respect user freedom and privacy. Unlike Google, they allow you to use proper adblockers and don't want to screw you over with this MV3 bullshit.
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I agree with the sentiment, but acktshually... https://blog.chromium.org/2021/01/limiting-private-api-availability-in.html
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That's the not-spyware part of it.
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I love how the Chrome logo is literally a camera shutter looking at you, with Chromium the same but in camo. Really gets the message across.
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I tried to download Chromium but it's a mess. No way a regular user will be able to download and install it. The will to do it will fade pretty quickly
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Firefox is better anyways
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Firefox doesn't fucking work with my daughter's online school. This is a national school that multiple states are adopting as a state online school (meaning it is a public school and we don't have to pay tuition) and we have to use Chrome because I can't get it to work in Firefox and I hate Edge. Even worse, a bunch of materials from the school either don't mention which browser to use or specifically say you can use either Firefox or Chrome. I spent like half an hour trying to figure out why it wasn't working. I did updates, resets, anything I could think of, until my wife texted me and said maybe it has to be in Chrome. And yep, that worked.
Of course, the school is run by Pearson, and they're evil, so they probably have a deal with Google anyway.
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I’m happy with Safari but yeah Firefox is my other choice
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Flatpak (and flathub.org) has been a lifesaver for this, I use Ungoogled Chromium. Of course only for the few broken shitty websites that I'm forced to use
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Well they marketed it heavily and this is the result.
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Good luck finding a Chromium build for non Linux based systems. Not that I would be affected by that.
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So... Chrome is for exhibitionists?
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Always has been
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Replace the icon?
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Except that the spyware is so intertwined into Google's products that many websites straight-up break without them. Google Drive won't even let you download stuff with third-party cookies disabled.
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Just install a de-googled Chromium fork (ungoogled-chromium or Brave), and create a separate browser profile for Google Drive? Then it doesn't matter if you have third party cookies enabled or not, your browsing data is completely isolated for your main profile. That's what I do for almost every proprietary web-app I use (Discord, youtube, shopping services, whatsapp web, f*cebook, etc.). The only issue is that the profile picker gets rather crowded, but to overcome that I wrote a rofi script that lets me launch chromium profiles directly
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use cromite or firefox
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Cromite is on Android, Ungoogled Chromium is on desktop.
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Pretty sure cromite has windows builds now. Personally think firefox is better than any chromium alternative on desktop
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Downvote for "literally". Better adverbs please?
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Is "literally" an adverb? I always though that adverbs were like adjectives but used for verbs (actions). Like "quickly" or "slowly". Where is the action in a sentence like "It's literally the same browser"? Is it an adverb for the "is" (to be) auxiliary verb? srry english not my first language
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Wtf is wrong with you
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It is pretty ingenious (and evil) the way they made the Chromium logo look like the shitty off-brand diet version of Chrome.
Completely ignoring Chrome's success is off the back of it being advertised on the world's most popular website since it's release, then yeah.
and they advertised it on tv pretty heavily, too.
And it being installed with unrelated software as crapware, and Google adopting Microsoft's "Youtube isn't done until Firefox doesn't run"...
I wonder if chromium having the blue colors is what set the precedent for almost every other privacy-conscious browser to have a blue logo (Waterfox, GNU Icecat, palemoon, librewolf...)
EDIT on second though probably not, blue just seems like a good color for internet-related applications. Safari, edge, and internet explorer are also blue!
For years I've seen blue as a social media color and stayed away. A beautiful peaceful color ruined by Facebook and its ilk
As others already said, Chromium definitely isn't the first or only one to use a blue logo. There is a theory that colours influence the way we perceive a brand, for example this article explains that idea.
Blue is supposed to convey trustworthiness and maturity. A lot of companies like that, so you tend to see a lot of blue.
You may also be experiencing the frequency illusion. If you specifically noticed the blue in Chromium's logo, it would make sense that you suddenly started noticing the blue in other logos as well!
I feel like just more app icons in general are blue than any other color. Off the top of my head in addition to what you mentioned I have shazam, venmo, signal, steam, blink, reolink, dropbox, steam, paypal, discord, max, disney plus. And that's not even counting one's that are majority white but with blue as the only color. I think it's just the most popular design choice or maybe there's some sinister market research somewhere that shows people use/spend more on apps that have blue icons.
And no API keys included on the Windows version of Chromium...