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<h1 class="leading-normal text-7xl">No Chromium</h1>
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<h3 class="leading-normal text-5xl">Use a different web browser</h3>
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<h2>What is Chromium?</h2>
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Chromium is a web browser developed by Google. Many modern web browsers
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use its codebase and extend upon it, for example:
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<li>Google Chrome</li>
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<li>Opera</li>
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<li>Microsoft Edge</li>
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<li>Brave Browser</li>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)" aria-label="Link to the Chromium Wikipedia page.">
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More Information
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<h2>Why is this a bad thing?</h2>
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Chromium based browsers dominate the market. This means that any changes
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Google makes to the Chromium code base are also present in the browsers
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that build on it. As Chromium based browsers are the majority, websites
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have to adapt. This also forces non chromium browsers like Firefox to
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implement these changes. This gives Google the power to steer the web in
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a direction they benefit from the most.
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</p>
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<h2>What can I do</h2>
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You should use alternative browsers like
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<a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/" aria-label="Link to the Firefox download page.">
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Firefox
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</a>
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or, even
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better,
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<a href="https://librewolf.net/" aria-label="Link to the LibreWolf website.">
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LibreWolf
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</a>.
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<h2>Examples</h2>
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<h3>Web Environment Integrity</h3>
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The Web Environment Integrity spec is a proposal by Google engineers
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to add a mechanism to browsers that verifies them and the platform it's running on
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to be trusted by third party (attester). This is often compared as being
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<abbr title="Digital Rights Management">DRM</abbr> for Websites.
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As an example Google Play is named as an attester for Android.
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Of course this would enable Google to mark their own
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Browser, Google Chrome, as trusted. Furthermore Google would be able to discourage the
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use of Browsers that harm their business model (selling ads) like Firefox, a browser
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that has a rich ecosystem of ad blockers and tracker protection.
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<br><br>
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On Windows Systems, Microsoft will likely play the role of the attester and
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encourage the use of Edge. Which third would attest for a Browser to be trusted on
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Linux distributions is not clear yet. There might be different attesters
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being used in different distributions. More niche distros might have trouble
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finding a third party to attest for their platform.
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<br><br>
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By implementing this spec Google is also forcing other browsers to do the same.
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Browsers that don't implement the spec would simply not be trusted by websites
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for demand the browser to proof it is trusted.
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</p>
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<details>
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<summary>More Info</summary>
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<ul>
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<Article
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url="https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/"
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author="Julien Picalausa"
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title = "Unpacking Google’s new "dangerous" Web-Environment-Integrity specification"
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/>
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<Article
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url="https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/25/google_web_environment_integrity/"
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author="Thomas Claburn"
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title="Google's next big idea for browser security looks like another freedom grab to some"
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/>
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</li>
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<Article
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url="https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md"
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author= "Ben Wiser (Google), Borbala Benko (Google), Philipp Pfeiffenberger (Google), Sergey Kataev (Google)"
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title="Web Environment Integrity Explainer"
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/>
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</ul>
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</details>
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</section>
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<h3>FLOC</h3>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h3>Widevine</h3>
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</section>
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