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Chromium Testing "Password Leak Detection" (Not In Edge Yet)
It's an interesting feature. Might be an eventual good one for Edge too (except through Microsoft syn/accounts instead of Googles accounts).
I checked Chrome Canary app on Android and it's not in the flags yet. That too will be intersting to see.
or even when they put it up for sale on torrent or dark web, Google goes and buys a copy from the hacker and then integrate it into their system?
About zero. Those into cracking password or servers or into warez (software piracy) wouldn't be dense enough to post those passwords publicly unless they were complete amateurs. Even on some of the darknet sites or Tor sites they're not going to openly advertise or distribute them. The password leak detection probably is a good backup option/alternative and still a neat concept however as always people should be careful with their password and data information and how they process or input it on the internet as even securited sites . Unless Google has a secret method of obtaining those leaked passwords that no one else knows about.
- Exactly,
I wish Microsoft would make a copy of chromium engine on their github account, like starting from version 80, and then cut its connection to the chromium and Google entirely, so that new versions of chromium won't come from google but from Microsoft themselves. Microsoft engineers can start working on it alone and add their own features in parallel with Google.
though i'm not sure how much open source the chromium engine is or whether its license agreement even allows that.If I remember corretly "Chromium" is completely open source. What Google put's on top of it for their fork (Chrome) is what or can be closed source (like their auto updater, AAC, H.264, HTML5 to name a few things that's not in Chromium). However Google "contributes" to the develop and forwardness of the Chromium Project which to some can or might be preceived like a puppet master (Google) pulling the puppets strings (Chromium). https://www.chromium.org/Home
Microsoft forking it going forward with their own Chromium spin-off engine that's not affliated or tied with Google is a interesting indeed. I don't know if that ever will or can happen, but it's a fasinating idea and seperates Edge Chromium from Google Chromium like Brave Browser did (they took and used the Chromium engine without Google's involvement or connections as if making Chromium their own).
I have Chromium installed on my Windows 10 computer using a third party updater application (ChromiumUpdathe) that I have set to update every four hours (I was doing every two hours for new build revisions as Chromium is revised/updated up to 40 times a day, but two hours as a bit too much. I might even move up to eight hours even though it's all done hidden without view in the background unless I bring up the screens in Task Manager like in my snap picture below) through a third pardy task schedule (System Scheduler). Mainly to compare it too Edge when new Edge features come out or to see if a bug/crash/whatever happens when I'm using Edge to see if it is also found in Chromium.
Chromium is about identical to Chrome as it gets (or I should say Chrome is identical to Chromium as it gets to almost every detail). At least Edge Chromium is taking their own spin, look, design and enginging on it.