Chromium Downloads and Installs Proprietary Software Without Your Knowledge - Battle of the Browsers

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Published on June 22, 2015 5:33:20 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar1HMtQPvKs

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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