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They can choose to use chrome I guess. If you don't trust chrome, why would you trust google sync to save all of your data to their servers.

Chromium has open source value besides "not Google".

Pushing people to take uninformed choices is a so-called dark pattern.

but make certain choices easier, much easier. just use chrome, it's just less of a hassle.

I dubbed this "convenience herding". nobody is forcing you to do anything; they are just making some things very very inconvenient relative to how easy it's to just put it all in their servers or use their software (the cloud is an euphemism for not your computer)

Yes, but they have been simultaneously making it very hard not to use their sign-in your browser and sync everything.

If they actually revert chromium to not having any of this, they have the problem that they are building a path that works for a lot of people and takes us further away from chrome. It will be politically bad if they dead end that path, but a politically bad end is not unlikely.