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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can we be certain this isn't in the obsfucated binary blobs provided by Google? How can people act like Chromium and Chrome based browsers are free from Google BS when most of them still use precompiled hunks of executable provided by Google that we can't see into?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Do they use the binary blobs? I figured MS, Vivaldi, the random Chromium in the distro repos stripped those out or replaced them with their own secret bins before compilation.