Remove Google Chromium eavesdropping blob

[davidhedlund]

• chromium: unconditionally downloads binary blob
• Google Chromium eavesdropping tool installed on computers without permission

Richard Stallman said:

Even nastier, Chromium (supposedly "open source") automatically loads the nonfree audio listening module at startup. Effectively, that module is part of Chromium, which means Chromium as a whole is not really free software (nor open source).

[davidhedlund]

Greg Rundlett said

I just checked, and this was fixed almost immediately (back in June, 2015).

Chromium does not download the "Hotwords" module. See the response in the bug tracker for chromium:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=500922#c44

Chromium does not download nor contain the nonfree audio listening module. Here's the diff of the above-referenced commit: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/0366a5184a70b3eefb5fcef2c2e13721669f00d8%5E%21/

Chrome, a Google product, is a different story.