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Chromium of all browsers gets pestered all the time by Google services. It's... odd.

Google doesn't want you to use Chromium. Use Chrome instead, it's exactly like Chromium but with all the Google bloatware installed!

>with all the Google bloatware installed!

Oh yeah? Like what?

Sorry, does anyone downvoting want to actually explain to me what "bloatware" is "bundled into" Chrome? Or just more errant bullshit that's tacitly accepted because it's anti-Google rhetoric fired from the hip without substance?

Those audio/video codecs... so much bloat! https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...

Or maybe you're upset about the "colorful logo" bloat?

I'm thinking about the profile features, Google Cloud Print, the Google Now thing that I think is now gone (not actually sure if I'm not being listed to)... I'm upset with Google because they keep imposing their services/design in an otherwise good browser.

Google Chrome also ships various Google Apps extensions that are enabled by default. No idea why that's not in their documentation.

There isn't Chrome for FreeBSD. When I access google.com/chrome from Firefox under it, it says I needn't download it because my Chromebook does it by own means :) Shall I retry later on?

Which Google services are you talking about? I've been running Chromium for about 6 years as my main browser and I don't remember a site even detecting that it wasn't Chrome, let alone pestering me.

He's probably using Ubuntu. They chose to patch Chromium's user agent to identify as Chromium, not Chrome. Obviously that breaks stuff.

Chromium doesn't contain the commercializatin Chrome does. In other words, they don't make as much money on you if you use the clean version.

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