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---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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