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> open vs closed source products

Chrome is for all intents and purposes, open source. Yes, there is 0.000001% that's not. It's hard to argue that tiny portion is the difference.

> Chrome is actively ending ad block support in its plugins.

Chrome has not ended ad blocking - I'm using ublock lite and ads are blocked.



Just like Android is open source!


Is that a fair comparison? There is almost nothing Google adds to Chromium to get Chrome. It's fully usable without the 0.001% that Google adds.

Android though, IIUC, it's effectively not usable without Google Play services.




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