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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Got a Chromebook? Worried about the change? (self.privacy)

submitted 1 year ago by jerrimu to c/[email protected]

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You can boot into developer mode, install chromebrew https://github.com/chromebrew/chromebrew

You can install Firefox now!!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This isn't true. The bootloader and boot process will be the same. This link is about the bundled Chrome (which is also what houses the entire UI/UX for the OS) becoming deprecated as the main browser for the standard Linux flavor one running through the wayland bridge of Crostini.