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[Richard Stallman]

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Please DTRT about this problem in Chromium.
First please check that the situation has not changed since a year ago.
If it has not, then Chromium should be treated as a nonfree program
for the directory.

I think someone maintains a free and less-nasty modified version of Chromium.
We should list that.


Chrome contains an audio listening module.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/23/google-eavesdropping-tool-installed-computers-without-permission

  Even nastier, Chromium (supposedly "open source") automatically
loads the nonfree audio listening module at startup.  Effectively,
that module is part of Chromium, which means Chromium as a whole is
not really free software (nor open source).

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Dr Richard Stallman
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Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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