It is pretty ingenious (and evil) the way they made the Chromium logo look like the shitty off-brand diet version of Chrome.
Completely ignoring Chrome's success is off the back of it being advertised on the world's most popular website since it's release, then yeah.
And it being installed with unrelated software as crapware, and Google adopting Microsoft's "Youtube isn't done until Firefox doesn't run"...
and they advertised it on tv pretty heavily, too.
I love Opera's response to some of the idiotic speed test ads: https://youtu.be/zaT7thTxyq8
This was before Opera dropped their own engine and became just another Chrome skin unfortunately.
For those who missed the original Chrome ads, here they are: https://youtu.be/nCgQDjiotG0
I really miss the old Opera. Dropped it immediately when they went with Chrome.
Wait, what?
Their chrome and play store ads will forever be seared in my brain.
I wonder if chromium having the blue colors is what set the precedent for almost every other privacy-conscious browser to have a blue logo (Waterfox, GNU Icecat, palemoon, librewolf...)
EDIT on second though probably not, blue just seems like a good color for internet-related applications. Safari, edge, and internet explorer are also blue!
For years I've seen blue as a social media color and stayed away. A beautiful peaceful color ruined by Facebook and its ilk
Firefox logo looks better anyway.
Used to, anyway.
Still does, though I agree I liked the old one better.
Literally just use Firefox
I don't blame the users here, remember from 2008 to 2012 where chrome ads where plastered on every website. Google knew what it was doing spreading its Trojan horse. I wouldn't have known about the existence of chromium if I wasn't lurking of privacy forums, blame google this time.
Love the legend at the bottom!
the hecking pepper brush from GIMP at the end got me laughing!
It's like a little trophy that we get the privilege of using as a reward for mastering GIMP's admittedly beginner-hostile interface
Nice job on the half chrome logo on the second panel
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Green Is My Pepper 👌
when i was in high school chrome had lots of school restrictions but chromium didnt. life saver for me, guy who did nothing in high school
Schools IT departments all over the world are doing society a massive favor by indirectly teaching children how to bypass censorship. 80% of what I know about IP and NAT came from finding different ways to bypass my school's firewall haha
Or use Firefox, a browser not made by the same guys who want to create a monopoly on web browsers.
I agree with the sentiment, but acktshually... https://blog.chromium.org/2021/01/limiting-private-api-availability-in.html
Well they marketed it heavily and this is the result.
Also no one is a loser for using a piece of software.
I tried to download Chromium but it's a mess. No way a regular user will be able to download and install it. The will to do it will fade pretty quickly
I go to the software center, search chromuim, click install. Its that easy for Linux mint users
Good luck finding a Chromium build for non Linux based systems. Not that I would be affected by that.
I love how the Chrome logo is literally a camera shutter looking at you, with Chromium the same but in camo. Really gets the message across.
Why is Elmo standing in for Cookie Monster?
Huh? Wasn't this always how this template looked like? I found it by ducking (is that what we call it?) "elmo cocaine meme template", meanwhile "coockie monster cocaine meme template" returns nothing relevant...
EDIT: Are you making a joke about cookies that I am too dumb to understand?
Downvote for "literally". Better adverbs please?
The word is actually correct in this case, though. Chromium is, in every way that matters, literally (as in exactly, completely, utterly, fully, in actuality, totally) the same as Chrome.
Is "literally" an adverb? I always though that adverbs were like adjectives but used for verbs (actions). Like "quickly" or "slowly". Where is the action in a sentence like "It's literally the same browser"? Is it an adverb for the "is" (to be) auxiliary verb? srry english not my first language
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