I installed Google Chrome was that a mistake?

yes. i did that… I think… I’m changing passwords now… but many of them

All right then, that’s a good practice anyway, but there is no need, really.

If you check the PKGBUILD as @bill_t says, you would notice that all that that thing is doing, it’s downloading the OFFICIAL .deb build for Debian/Ubuntu, from the OFFICIAL Google servers, and just extracting it in a way that works on an Arch structure. That’s it, that’s all. If you trust Google, and that’s another whole matter, you can trust this.

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Maybe it is good to get off of google-chrome anyway. Thanks for the reassurance. It will take some time to fix my passwords… which I’m due for and many are reused. However, I’m a monk with no money. :slight_smile: so they are not getting much.

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If it is such a standard package? Why didn’t they add it to the main repo?

Because chrome is cancerous google spyware. Chromium is however available in the official repos (if under duress)

Your best bet for password security is to use a trusted password manager, if you are looking for cloud storage bitwarden is probably the best you could do.

Firefox browser is safe, secure and in the official repos.

As Signalrunner says that bill says, if you check the script you’ll know exactly what you’re getting in for. You’re not in any danger regardless.

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Here are some reasons:

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Licensing issues. Google probably doesn’t allow modification of the package and distribution at the same time. And Chrome it’s closed source, which isn’t view as that great of a thing in GNU/Linux world.

And again, there exist a free, open source alternative in Chromium, so it is good that things are this way probably.

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If Google Chrome is based on Chromium, then why would Google be free from open source rules?

Some would say GoogleChrome itself is malicious…

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They are not. The license (3 clause BSD mostly) allows usage in proprietary and closed source software.

The BSD License allows proprietary use and allows the software released under the license to be incorporated into proprietary products. Works based on the material may be released under a proprietary license as closed source software, allowing usual commercial usages under them.

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Google Chrome openly uses proprietary, binary blobs in their browser. By using Chrome, you not using open source.

Well, after all of this , i switched to FF

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Why is there not an open source deb converter?
I think Fedora has this.

Okay… i understand now. How to Install .Deb - #7 by Fabby

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Where is your problem ?
For every software you’ll have a conf file in your /home and in this file, specifics like settings or passwords, or history will be stored.
When I installed Manjaro over Xubuntu, I kept Firefox & Thunderbird and they where connected to my accounts at first start…

What is very funny in this thread is to see somebody whining about Chrome while having a Google account :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

Typical PICNIC

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The only reason I have a Google Account is due to watching YouTube and of course my Phone.

The OP can check out Chromium and use that.

I don’t have a Goo account to watch Youtube. What do I miss ?
(I don’t have an androïd either and am waiting to get a Pinephone :slight_smile: )

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I have Subscriptions to multiple Channels and to Like or Dislike Videos.

FF is better in term of privacy, but still, you will have to have your own user.js (look it up if you don’t know what it’s about / for). There’s rumor that Mozilla will not support this in the future, so even Mozilla will turn its back on superusers.

Anyway, Chrome or FF or whatever, I can only have peace of mind when I’m able to monitor apps and see all the sites/ports that it’s connecting to. I am able to do this on macOS with Little Snitch’s Network Monitoring. I tried to install jnettop but it’s not working for me.