but they are a gaming distribuition platform, and gaming is riddled with privacy-offending stuff too. Ungoogled-Chromium is a web browser that strips all Googles tracking and services from the Chromium browser for extra privacy. The main implication of this change is that is no longer possible to sync Chromium bookmarks, tabs, etc. They could step up and help finance the creation of a new platform agnostic browser sync feature for Chromium, but this is a lot farther away from their core business than a lot of other important things they have to improve yet Google announced that from Mafor the open-source version of Google Chrome, Chromium, it is limiting Private API availability. and there are also a small amount of DRM video streaming shenanigans that make some streaming platforms behave better on Google Chrome too I suspect they chose Google Chrome because from a user experience perspective, having bookmarks and passwords sync is important for a seamless transition between devices they ignored their own promises, pulled the rug from under opensource devs feet and it was nasty Google completely broke browser data sync features on Chromium over their servers around march 2021. This has already been a problem with the built-in Steam browser, which is ancient. Maybe bundle uBlock Origin, since it's literally the first thing everyone installs anyway. Change browser profiles to use Steam profiles Things I would change from original Chromium: I mentioned it because it might help someone else. Not available on iOS though, so probably not what you're looking for. It works on Chromium and Firefox browsers and syncs bookmarks across them all. In most cases this doesn't matter much as most people don't care, but I thought I would include it anyway Chromium doesn't have Sync anymore 1 Continue this thread level 1 3m edited 3m I use xbrowsersync as an extension. This should allow Valve to make whatever changes they need to at deep levels, rather than having to rely on external software workaroundsī) Everyone can see and audit Valve's codeĬ) Users won't be tracked by Google. I believe that shipping Chromium (maybe a custom fork) instead of Chrome would be beneficial to both Valve and Steam Deck users, for the following reasons:Ī) Chromium is open source. Valve has done an excellent job supporting open-source, and it's somewhat of a shame seeing them promote the binary blob that is Google Chrome. File sync failure/corruption: If Chromium is opened and incoming changes are made, then after restarting the app and visiting the settings page you will be told settings have been corrupted, and that they have been reset to default.
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