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-7d73c474...