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Google can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usage (www.theregister.com)
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[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 months ago

Wait. Even Chromium browser? I would've thought it was somewhat degoogle enough not to have these.

[-] GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Vivaldi reasoning for not disabling this extension is that non techy user(s) would be suprised, if Google Meet didn't work the same way it did on Chrome. They do offer a way to disable the extension.

Edit: Found the post from Vivaldi

Link: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/112761583314954575

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 months ago

Google has pretty firm control over the Chromium code base, so not much reason for them to degoogle it. Presumably the worst stuff is not publicized to avoid PR disasters, but just "Google does evil" is hardly a news story.

Ungoogled-chromium has a decent list of things they consider degoogle-worthy: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/README.md#feature-overview

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