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chromium: has freedom issues so well known that PureBrowser was introduced
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Someone has reported the following to FSF:

The PureOS homepage has a screenshot of something called "Purebrowser", which looks like a redranded Firefox, so it seems likely that Purism is aware of the freedom issues with popular browsers and has their own alternative, which is good. However, Debian's versions of Firefox ESR and Chromium, both with known freedom issues, are present in PureOS's repo.

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jonas.smedegaard closed this task as Invalid.EditedFeb 14 2021, 02:52

I am unaware of any issues with Chromium violating the FSF Free System Distribution Guidelines.

There are reasons that users might choose to avoid Chromium, and PureOS does not install it by default, but that is a different matter than depriving PureOS users of the ability to use that tool.

Please file a separate issue for each violation - don't assume the underlying issues are obvious.

PureBrowser was created due to trademark concern (which is not an issue for Chromium since that is already "de-branded" from Chrome) - see T11 for more details on that.