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Vivaldi browser and Qwant search engine?
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Never use Chromium based browsers as it is coming from Google and gives it more power. The only alternative is Gecko / Firefox based: Fennec for Android and Librewolf for desktop.
I agree to not be using something that comes from Chrome, but Chromium is open-source, so it's not like it's actively benefiting Google, right? (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
Chromium is still controlled by Google though, and they way it benefits them is giving them market share and user base. It's not as direct as using Google, but indirectly still benefits them to have such massive market share with chromium that they can do whatever they want with it. See:manifest v3 and working against adblockers
I don't really see how that can be the case when Chromium is open-source, though I'm admittedly not very knowledgeable on this subject.
It's because Google are the main contributors to it, and as such have a lot of power over the directions it goes.
Here's a somewhat decent article I randomly found that explains it a bit better than I can
https://medium.com/@lowharris15/master-of-the-web-how-google-rules-the-internet-with-chromium-65c9e10bd7dd
Ohhh, thank you for the information! I'll look into something like Waterfox then.