> If you know something I don't though, feel free. I haven't used chromium
too much... to be honest.
Then you should not assume what others say/recommend but test for yourself. I
have tested and I have found that out of the box both Chromium and
Firefox-based browsers contact third party hosts. Firefox is actually much
more "evil" in that sense because it has telemetry enabled by default + it
creates connections not only to Mozilla but also to Amazon, Akamai, OCSP etc.
Additionally it is not trivial to configure it in a way to stop that. (it
needs a lot of customizations, advanced user stuff). Chromium out of the box
connects only to Google and it is fairly easy to stop that. There is enough
info about it in the web browsers thread. In particular this is my report
about its privacy issues, with full details:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=795526
As you can configure it so that it does not contact anyone. And until this
"bug" is fixed you can also set translate.google.com to point to 127.0.0.1 in
your hosts file and you can be sure there are no connections to other hosts
which you don't explicitly initiate yourself.
> ps, look at libreplanet's reasons why chromium is not to be trusted. Before
you respond okay?
Have they done the tests which I did? If yes - where are their results and
reports? Or are they merely comparing license terms to recommended license
terms? They write:
> Problem: (1) Copyright or license of some code is unclear
> (2) Links to proprietary plugins.
Which code?
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/LICENSE?revision=HEAD&view=markup
Unclear to who? Some lawyer? Seems pretty clear to me. Do you really want a
lawyer to tell you what software to use? Or a layman who fails to understand
legal terms?
They also link to some bug report from 2009 which I haven't read in full
detail but skimming through it looks like mainly a concern about some
automatic license checker script failing to verify things correctly. And
note: the bug report was opened by a project member with email address
@chromium.org which is a positive signal (at least to me).
As a comparison: Is Mozilla's "privacy policy" better?
https://trisquel.info/files/firefox-privacy-policy-2.png
+ the way they react to the bug reports about the privacy issues (they close
them).
Libreplanet also writes:
> Recommended Fix: Remove program/package
> Use GNU IceCat, or equivalent
IceCat also has all the issues which Firefox has as it is the same code base.
As discussed in the web browsers thread it is really just a rebranded Firefox
with some customized prefs (more tightened) and relies on extensions (but not
the best ones) to enhance privacy:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/web-browser?page=4#comment-127390
So it is not an entirely different program which is specifically made to
respect your privacy. It is rather a patched problematic program.
As I said: you should not trust words (including mine) but look and test for
yourself. And btw as a side note: anyone who thinks he can hide from Google
completely must be quite naive. They own too many domains and too many sites
use their hosted libraries, APIs etc.
