Privacy advocates aimed their open-source attitudes straight at Googles Chromium team, stuck to their guns and won a small but respectful victory. A bug report (strictly, an issue) was filed against Chromium just over a week ago (16 June 2015) The issue boiled down to how Chromium downloads a non-open-source add-in module that turns on your microphone without asking you first. Google seemed to be saying that it considered the hotword extension to be a core part of the browser, yet it didnt consider the fact that it was shipped as a core component to be something it should have an opinion about.”]