On 1/27/21 1:49 AM, Massimiliano Torromeo via arch-dev-public wrote: > I agree with you 100% Eli. > > I find this whole thing of "sticking it" to Google just ridiculous. Like you > really think they would even care? No and that's the problem. And even if they don't, we should just give in?
> I mean, I also find the whole situation irritating and their arguments > actually > insulting to our intelligence but there's no winning this. That may be, but I don't agree this is an argument to go belly up. > > On the other hand I seem to be the only one here that actually need chromium > for my daily work and dropping it to AUR is already a big enough > inconvenience > to let me consider switching distro on my work laptop, but banning it from > the > AUR!? Do you even care about our users? No, you are not the only one. I am using Chromium exclusively actually. Every day and even some work things I do only work in Chromium. I completely know where you are coming from. I do care about the users, because I am one of them. I am willing to do this myself. I will find another way, but unless I do find another way, I will forever be stuck in trying to find more and more ways to suck up to Google and their stupid policies, and give in to their coercion. Which I am not willing to do anymore. That is my reasoning. > I personally think that as long as there is a willing maintainer we should > just package chromium without the google api keys just like fedora is doing? > Or are we also dropping the multitude of other browsers with no google sync/ > safe browsing integrations? > I do not think we should ship chromium at all, although Safe Browsing was never a thing I enjoyed or found a benefit in. It can also be misused badly [1]. -- Regards, Konstantin [1] - https://gomox.medium.com/google-safe-browsing-can-kill-your-startup-7d73c474b98d
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