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Qutebrowser is nice, but it uses the same webengine (QtWebengine) that chrome uses. This is a concern for some

I don't have chrome, but I have chromium, and I don't see its package depend on the qt5-webengine package that qutebrowser depends on. Doesn't chrome/chromium use their own web engine called Blink[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine)

I think their comment was either confusing or they misconstrued something. QtWebEngine uses code from Chromium [1], not the other way around.

[1]: https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine

>This is a concern for some

I don't think so. Why would it be a concern? It's not like the web rendering engine will "phone home" under your nose or something...

I don't use any of these alternative browsers because I don't want to increase the Blink/Webkit marketshare even further.

This ^

Concern in the sense that some people don't want to be using the same kit as other browsers do. (E.g. this guy https://reddit.com/r/qutebrowser/comments/a4uk9r/use_of_webk...)

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