It is hard to have a discussion with you when you exaggerate. Rapist mentality is far from what Chromium is. You really can’t equate rape to technology, since you have a choice.
The API you references communicates with Google using its own API when you use Google services, and as specifically designed for Google Hangouts at the time to report system information during calls. This has been known about since at least 2018. Any developer could have submitted a PR to have it removed. That is how open source works.
This has already been disabled in other Chromium builds:
Just because Brave recently submitted a bug report doesn’t mean that others have noticed. Again, I encourage you to look at what can be disabled via policies in Chrome (like Firefox):
It is hard to have a discussion with you when you exaggerate. Rapist mentality is far from what Chromium is. You really can’t equate rape to technology, since you have a choice.
The API you references communicates with Google using its own API when you use Google services, and as specifically designed for Google Hangouts at the time to report system information during calls. This has been known about since at least 2018. Any developer could have submitted a PR to have it removed. That is how open source works.
This has already been disabled in other Chromium builds:
https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/flags.gn#L5
Just because Brave recently submitted a bug report doesn’t mean that others have noticed. Again, I encourage you to look at what can be disabled via policies in Chrome (like Firefox):
https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#WebRtcEventLogCollectionAllowed