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vbsteven | karma 1971 | avg karma 3.62 · 2018-09-24 01:03:22

If you're so afraid of Google just don't use Chromium at all. It's a bit like using tools developed by the NSA thinking you are safe because you manually applied patches for all the known backdoors.

techntoke | karma -3 | avg karma -0.0 · 2018-09-24 15:06:18+00:00

Chromium is open source. MacOS, Windows, Safari, Edge, etc are not.

TimTheTinker | karma 7131 | avg karma 3.4 · 2018-09-24 12:40:19

Safari is open source (see WebKit).

Darwin (MacOS kernel and subsystem) is also open source.

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commoner | karma 9473 | avg karma 5.67 · 2018-09-24 12:57:46

Only Safari's browser engine is open source. The browser as a whole is released under a proprietary freeware license.