---js
const title = "Don't use Chromium";
const date = "2025-04-15";
const draft = true;
const tags = ["software", "complaining"];
---

_Or any forks._

Chromium, the most popular browser. Over 60% of the Internet
uses Chromium. The 3rd most popular browser is Microsoft Edge,
based on Chromium, at 5%. 

## "Vanilla" Chromium

### Monopolies

As stated above, Chrome has a monopoly in web browsers. Not much
more needs to be said here, other than that obviously monopolies
are bad.

### Privacy

Google is the largest tracking company in the world. They have
billions of dollars, and a lot of that is invested into tracking
users. Something like ungoogled-chromium can't possibly remove
_every_ single tracker in Chromium, it's just too big of a
codebase.

### Security

Using Chrome would provide more security than a fork, but that
would significantly decrease privacy. Forks of Chromium like
Thorium etc have delayed updates, so it takes longer to get
critical security fixes.

## Microsoft Edge

It's in the title.

## Other forks

Most other forks are irrelavant in the grand scheme of things.
The above applies.

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