Chromium (and Chromium-based browsers) losing sync support on March 15

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Gobble-DeGobble :turkey: :rofl:

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I wish they had been a little more clear on this announcement. It isnā€™t even really clear if this effects chromium and everyone seems to be interpreting it differently.

When I read it the first time, I took it to mean that some niche browsers had hijacked googleā€™s APIs for Chrome to get free service from their infrastructure. Not that the chromium sync itself would stop working.

Reading it again, I think you can take it either way. I am hoping we get a little clarity on this tomorrow.

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You can take the article either way and since a lot of people in the Linux community are also confidently about Chromium, I thought I missed some ā€œinsidersā€ scoops on this one. :wink:

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Like Vivaldi, which, as I know, also uses its own infrastructure for syncing.

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If they strip out Chromium features and making them Chrome exclusive, you get the idea

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It just isnā€™t clear if that is what is actually happening. In other words, is the sync that is in chromium today the one they are talking about disabling or not? Some have suggested that chromium sync and chrome sync already have separate infrastructure and chromium wonā€™t be impacted. Others have suggested the opposite.

The small blurb of text from google is not really enough to fully understand the intent or impact.

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Either way, the more chrome/google stuff removed from chromium, the better for us

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Thank you Google for taking the burden of doing it ourselves away from us. :rofl:

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Well, letā€™s hope that Firefox will not be lost to us ā€¦ :pray:t2:

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Judging the CEOā€™s practices, we might loose it. MAYBE

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Letā€™s pray to the Saint Zuse that we donā€™t have to switch to Chromium. I tried Chromium again a while ago, but it was horrible ā€¦

PS:: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse

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Evangelos Foutras:

If Chromeā€™s keys are still public in March, I would want to try and use
them in our Chromium package for however long they remain unchanged and
non-secret. If a team member thinks this is a terrible idea, please let
me know.

If (or when) the above workaround fails, I am going to stop maintaining
Chromium and be in favor of dropping the package from our repos, though
I have a feeling someone will want to adopt it despite the reduction in
functionality.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210119202706/https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2021-January/030263.html

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Yep, itā€™s win, win!

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I am going to stop maintaining Chromium and be in favor of dropping the package from our repos, though I have a feeling someone will want to adopt it despite the reduction in functionality.

Removing it from the repos seems like an extreme reaction to losing sync support. I suspect someone else would pick it up before that happens.

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Stil chromium os theoretical more secure then vivaldi but that also bit subjective. Vivaldi uses a older chromium and bravo but you dont know if the latest updates incorperated ā€¦ last time i try vivaldi it complained over outdated chrome version

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I certainly hope so. Even though I use Firefox as my daily browser, I have always had Chromium as fallback.

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Giancarlo Razzolini(grazzolini) volunteered to pick it up if he decides to drop it.

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Thatā€™s great! Thanks for sharing the info!
:wave:t5:

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Well, since I prefer Chromium over Firefox that leaves me with either installing actual Chrome, or use browsers I donā€™t like.

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chromium wil stil exist is mayby a storm in a bowl of water. As security functionalty its always updating constantly so thats different since maintainance for a browser is just needed :slight_smile: chromium stil updates a lot chrome comes short afterā€¦

brave & vivaldi and opera idkā€¦