I'd prefer it if you didn't ping them about my thoughts on this.
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deleted!! is there backstory I missed? I believe they have similar incentives and have made progress towards providing an example for factoring out many of the questionable google-y bits. I'm happily widevine-free in part due to their efforts.
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I strongly dislike their CEO and consider a fair bit of what they've done as a company to be quite problematic. I prefer avoiding contact with them over conflict.
I have too much other stuff to deal with to have the bandwidth available to deal with them.
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Chromium itself doesn't come with Widevine. If you build desktop Chromium with enable_widevine=true it enables support for fetching and using it. It's not enabled by default.
It has support for other implementations too. I want to have it work this way for Google services too.
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So, for example, there should be a way to configure the service to use for correcting navigating errors. It should default to not using one. If they have no intention of standardizing and documenting how this works, they should just move this proprietary Google service to Chrome.
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There are a hundred cases like this where Chromium uses a Google service to provide a feature. In the cases where private data is submitted, they have configuration options. However, they lack build time configuration for disabling the features or using another provider for them.
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I want them to start designing all of these things to be configurable at build time. It should be possible to build Chromium in a way that it doesn't connect to Google services without applying any patches. Other browsers shouldn't need to patch it to use their services instead.
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Agreed. Standing offer to send $100 to anyone you can think of who might advance this, your future self included. Neither kilowatt-hours nor and good beer are free!
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Yes, I'm aware of some of this! It's why I've been investing in Brave, despite significant disagreements with the CEO. It seems very useful to have at least one group working to maintain a diffset for most of the obvious issues.