Justice department urges court to force Google to share data with rivals as part of wide-ranging changes to end online giant’s monopoly on web searching
    • KmlSlmk64@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Well, it mostly already is. The Chromium project is essentially everything Chrome already has, except Chrome contains a few proprietary components (IIRC the tracking is proprietary)

    • ඞmir@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I wished I got a nickel every time someone argues Chrome should be open source, only to find out it always has been

        • ඞmir@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Open source =/= FOSS, yes it’s licensed as proprietary, but you can compile Chromium from scratch and the only drawback is Google’s backup server not letting you connect. Other than that, the browser is identical…