@rugk: I'd expected that it doesn't matter to most #Chromium users, because one of the reasons to use Chromium instead of #Chrome is to be sure to actually not use any #Google service at all.
So I'm actually happy about that change. One thing less where a Chromium package maintainer could possibly oversee a phoning-home "feature".
@xtaran Note if you have this aim, it may be better to use #ungoogledChromium or one of the other forks out there.
@rugk Oh if only there wasn't a quasi-monopoly. I wonder how that snuck up on us?