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Why Can't We All Use Chromium Instead of Google Chrome?

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Tech Drive-in; By Manuel Jose
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This is something I always asked myself. How is Google Chrome different from Chromium. Apart from the logo, there is hardly any difference visually between the two. So I decided to dig further. Here are some of the interesting facts you should know.

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When I had a look at this article (using Chromium on Arch Linux, ironically), the major advertisement was for a service that did "Microsoft Licensing - Explained!"

Let me break that down just a bit further:

The article advocates using Chromium rather than Chrome, at least in part to avoid a "creepy" Chrome EULA that gave possession of all the material you view with Chrome to Google.

The advertisement on the article illustrates further why this sort of thing is a problem: current licensing has so much complication that you need a third party, specializing in licensing, to tell you about that licensing.

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