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What's the dial with Chrome over Chromium? (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 2 years ago by tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social to c/foss

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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?

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[–] bbbhltz 7 points 2 years ago

If I had to guess, it is all about branding.

Chromium isn't as well-known as Chrome. A person uses a computer, gets used to Chrome, and that's that. Brand loyalty.

At some point, the user becomes aware of the existence of Chromium. It does everything that Chrome does, even the sync stuff, but the name. Chromium sounds weaker than Chrome. And also, open source.

While it may be hard to wrap our heads around, the question of trust plays a role. Some individuals would rather put their privacy in the hands of a big corporation than an open source project. Without even trying the alternative... You can see the same happen with Office software. Many people, on their personal computers, could probably get by with LibreOffice. But somehow people have this idea that open source is bad. Also, OpenOffice! Why are people still installing that? It is ruining the image of open source...

Finally, they might see the website and be totally lost.

Chromium landing page

But Chrome's page has that big button we are used to seeing.