Outside of Firefox, and very niche browsers, every other browser is built on Chromium. Edge, Opera, Chrome, etc. They all just add in their own customizations and things. You have to go look directly for Chromium, which the vast majority of the world doesn't know exist. That's the only reason why.
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90% of people, possibly more, don't know shit about tech and are not interested in the slightest in learing how to use and understand the tools they get their hands on everyday.
The vast majority of tech savy people don't care about privacy and free software at all, and they'll stick to chrome because it's the "gold standard" in their opinion.
That's it, from my experience at least. People don't know, and if they do, they don't care.
My guess is that the vast majority of people using Chrome aren’t even aware that Chromium exists.
They might just like the google sync part? If they use chrome on their mobiles and other computers and so on?
Haven't used Chrome or Chromium in quite some time, but sounds interesting -- especially since fully open-source forks of Firefox, such as Fennec, can use Mozilla's sync service.
Even non-Firefox browsers can use Firefox Sync! GNOME Web does for example.