Dang, I guess this would take an organized effort to code review every FAANG supported opensource project, but this is another thing I keep hearing and I want to discuss.

Usage of any chromium probably aids Google’s web takeover in someway or another.

Why?

Linus Torvald doesn't "take over" 95% of all computers on the internet. And why, because he can't. He can push a change to the linux repo to collect telemetry and show an ad whenever a command finishes. He's allowed to do that, there's no rule against it (AFAIK & "in-general").

Google can push whatever telemetry collecting code they want to the chromium repo. They're allowed to do that, there's no rule against it (AFAIK & "in-general").

Nobody has to take those changes.

None of the major distros have to take Linus's telemetry collecting changes, and no chromium browser has to take Google's telemetry collecting changes. Thats the thing about opensource, its that once you publish something with an open-source license you also give up authority to decide what direction it goes, sure you can want everybody to use your code with your special feature that only benefits you. You can want whatever you want. Nobody has to do what you want to in the opensource community, and nobody is gonna take changes from Google which include adblocker-blockers, telemetry trackers, or DRM systems. Opensource is pretty much already federated, just fork a repo and take pull requests to your own standard, your allowed to do that.

Think about it like this: why would Microsoft (Google's competetor) use chromium for their own closed source proprietary browser that they designed to make a profit for them?