Google has pretty firm control over the Chromium code base, so not much reason for them to degoogle it. Presumably the worst stuff is not publicized to avoid PR disasters, but just “Google does evil” is hardly a news story.
Vivaldi reasoning for not disabling this extension is that non techy user(s) would be suprised, if Google Meet didn’t work the same way it did on Chrome.
They do offer a way to disable the extension.
Wait. Even Chromium browser? I would’ve thought it was somewhat degoogle enough not to have these.
Google has pretty firm control over the Chromium code base, so not much reason for them to degoogle it. Presumably the worst stuff is not publicized to avoid PR disasters, but just “Google does evil” is hardly a news story.
Ungoogled-chromium has a decent list of things they consider degoogle-worthy: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/README.md#feature-overview
Vivaldi reasoning for not disabling this extension is that non techy user(s) would be suprised, if Google Meet didn’t work the same way it did on Chrome. They do offer a way to disable the extension.
Edit: Found the post from Vivaldi
Link: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/112761583314954575