A huge amount of users use chrome instead of chromium, but what are the advantages of this? To me it just seems closed source chromium with trackers and a colorful logo Is there some pro in using chrome?
Outside of Firefox, and very niche browsers, every other browser is built on Chromium. Edge, Opera, Chrome, etc. They all just add in their own customizations and things. You have to go look directly for Chromium, which the vast majority of the world doesn’t know exist. That’s the only reason why.
90% of people, possibly more, don’t know shit about tech and are not interested in the slightest in learing how to use and understand the tools they get their hands on everyday.
The vast majority of tech savy people don’t care about privacy and free software at all, and they’ll stick to chrome because it’s the “gold standard” in their opinion.
That’s it, from my experience at least. People don’t know, and if they do, they don’t care.
makes sense, I guess…
It does, but it sucks nontheless
Most do not know or care about the evils of Chrome.
Also, trying to install chromium on Android, iOS or Windows is something you really have to get out of your way to do.
And finally, some features that people want like sync are not available on Chromium.
My guess is that the vast majority of people using Chrome aren’t even aware that Chromium exists.
