[uamgeoalsk]

good for you. you're still supporting google by using a chromium-based browser

[charcircuit]

Anyone can contribute to chromium. It's an open source project so improvements and popularity benefits everyone, not just Google.

[ivanmontillam]

The main issue with Chromium is not that it's not that it benefits Google.

The main issue is that it's so mainstream, it strongarms standardization bodies making them ineffective.

Chromium is so mainstream that developers think developing for other browsers is irrelevant, even putting notices of deprecation for Safari and Firefox.

W3C is on the brink of irrelevancy, because if it works on Chromium, why bother with the others? if W3C cannot enforce the standard.

EDIT: Typo

[mzajc]

The ability to contribute and the rights granted by the license are two separate issues. Google isn't obligated to accept and is more than likely to reject patches that don't align with its incentives (reversal of recent anti-adblock changes, removal of telemetry/spyware, etc.)

[pjmlp]

I think you mean ChromeOS Platform.