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

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>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?

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