Chromium Downloads and Installs Proprietary Software Without Your Knowledge - Battle of the Browsers
Channel: Chris Were - Linux • tech • open source
Date: 2015-06-22

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Recent events have brought to light the possibility that Chromium may not be as free, open-source and ethical as we initially beloved. It downloads and installs a propitiatory module which has access to your microphone.

Sources:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20150622#news
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=491435
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724409