top | item 42327936 (no title) Ahrotahn | 1 year ago > Ungoogled Chromium is a project originating from China and maintained there.I don't know Eloston well enough to comment on the first half of that statement but the second half is certainly not true for the core repo! discuss order hn newest rvnx|1 year ago I needed some Chromium devs for a project so I contacted a few of the active maintainers on different platforms.Eventually had to give up: "sorry no I'm living in China, too complicated", which is sad because some of the people seemed really nice and smart.From the public information, you can only guess based on the names:One example: https://web.archive.org/web/20200920040602/https://mentors.d...or https://space.bilibili.com/439205819 (seems also smart and nice).I'm sure there are many counter-examples as well.It's not good or bad, just very logical that people who don't want Google are the ones who get a HTTP timeout or a lockup every time they try to send a request to Google.
rvnx|1 year ago I needed some Chromium devs for a project so I contacted a few of the active maintainers on different platforms.Eventually had to give up: "sorry no I'm living in China, too complicated", which is sad because some of the people seemed really nice and smart.From the public information, you can only guess based on the names:One example: https://web.archive.org/web/20200920040602/https://mentors.d...or https://space.bilibili.com/439205819 (seems also smart and nice).I'm sure there are many counter-examples as well.It's not good or bad, just very logical that people who don't want Google are the ones who get a HTTP timeout or a lockup every time they try to send a request to Google.
rvnx|1 year ago
Eventually had to give up: "sorry no I'm living in China, too complicated", which is sad because some of the people seemed really nice and smart.
From the public information, you can only guess based on the names:
One example: https://web.archive.org/web/20200920040602/https://mentors.d...
or https://space.bilibili.com/439205819 (seems also smart and nice).
I'm sure there are many counter-examples as well.
It's not good or bad, just very logical that people who don't want Google are the ones who get a HTTP timeout or a lockup every time they try to send a request to Google.