▲ 146 ▼ Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Google Chrome a "rounding error" — 17 years later, Internet Explorer is dead, and Microsoft Edge can barely catch up | Google CEO Sundar Pichai admits that B… (www.windowscentral.com) submitted 4 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world 41 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago (3 children) I thought Chromium still phoned home to Google permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] Hund@feddit.nu 10 points 4 months ago (2 children) It does, and there's nothing you can do about it either, other than, obviously, switching to an alternative web browser. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Opal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago (1 child) All chromium based do, even something like Helium can't remove that? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Hund@feddit.nu 5 points 4 months ago Helium should be fine. They're, to my understanding, a fork of ungoogled-chromium, and they seem to proxy all calls to Google for you. It shold be a safe enough web browser for 'regular' people who care about their privacy. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hund@feddit.nu 10 points 4 months ago (2 children) It does, and there's nothing you can do about it either, other than, obviously, switching to an alternative web browser. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Opal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago (1 child) All chromium based do, even something like Helium can't remove that? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Hund@feddit.nu 5 points 4 months ago Helium should be fine. They're, to my understanding, a fork of ungoogled-chromium, and they seem to proxy all calls to Google for you. It shold be a safe enough web browser for 'regular' people who care about their privacy. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Opal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago (1 child) All chromium based do, even something like Helium can't remove that? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Hund@feddit.nu 5 points 4 months ago Helium should be fine. They're, to my understanding, a fork of ungoogled-chromium, and they seem to proxy all calls to Google for you. It shold be a safe enough web browser for 'regular' people who care about their privacy. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hund@feddit.nu 5 points 4 months ago Helium should be fine. They're, to my understanding, a fork of ungoogled-chromium, and they seem to proxy all calls to Google for you. It shold be a safe enough web browser for 'regular' people who care about their privacy. permalink fedilink source parent