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?
My guess is that the vast majority of people using Chrome aren’t even aware that Chromium exists.
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.
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.
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
They might just like the google sync part? If they use chrome on their mobiles and other computers and so on?
Haven’t used Chrome or Chromium in quite some time, but sounds interesting – especially since fully open-source forks of Firefox, such as Fennec, can use Mozilla’s sync service.
Even non-Firefox browsers can use Firefox Sync! GNOME Web does for example.
Another part of it could be because people use Google search, search promotes Chrome for an optimal experience, they decide to try Chrome and end up sticking with Chrome.
