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763 points easton | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 17:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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doso ◴[21 Oct 25 18:23 UTC] No.45659580[source]▶
Something's bugging me about Atlas - it's clearly Chromium-based (you can tell from the user agent and UI), but I can't find any credit to Chromium anywhere. No license info, no acknowledgments, and when I try to access chrome:// pages they're blocked.

Maybe I'm overthinking this, but shouldn't there be some transparency about what you're building on top of? Especially with open source projects that have attribution requirements? I get that it's still early days, but this feels like a pretty basic thing to get right.

Anyone else notice this or know if this is standard practice? Just seems odd to me that they're not being upfront about the foundation they're building on.

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1. doso ◴[22 Oct 25 07:06 UTC] No.45665761[source]▶
More context, Comet browser (which is Chromium-based) clearly states its use of Chromium in its Help > About Comet section (comet://settings/help). Similarly, other Chromium-based browsers like Dia (via Dia > About Dia) and Arc (Arc > About Arc) explicitly attribute their open source foundation in their About sections, making the credits easily discoverable for users. It seems Atlas could improve transparency by following this standard and including similar attribution in its About/help dialog.