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If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now
(www.fastcompany.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
They're likely based on Chromium, which is what Google Chrome is based on. Chromium is open-source. Chrome is not.
Not that China cares about US copyright. But it's still easier to just use open-source code rather than creating a browser from scratch or cracking open the code of a proprietary browser.