The /s is useful for people who have stuff like autism or just suck at realising something is a joke (me)
Chrome is not the same as chromium/blink. You can use other chromium-based browsers, which are not full of google spyware.
Blink is incredibly performant. Why would you hate on a specific browser engine just because it's made by Google? Nothing stands in your way to switch to Firefox if you want, plus Blink is open source so what's not to like?
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