A few notes on this description:synopsis wrote:Without signing in to a Google Account, Chromium does pretty well in terms of security and privacy. However, Chromium still has some dependency on Google web services and binaries. In addition, Google designed Chromium to be easy and intuitive for users, which means they compromise on transparency and control of internal operations.
ungoogled-chromium addresses these issues in the following ways:
* Remove all remaining background requests to any web services while building and running the browser
* Remove all code specific to Google web services
* Remove all uses of pre-made binaries from the source code, and replace them with user-provided alternatives when possible.
* Disable features that inhibit control and transparency, and add or modify features that promote them (these changes will almost always require manual activation or enabling).
- Not tweaked out for privacy. That last bullet seems to mean that, because the program is very keen to maintain similarity with Google Chrome, some of the better privacy features are an extra (manual) step.
- More than cutting, it's blocking It's not just disabling Google service code, the program even blocks internal requests to Google at runtime to avoid workarounds by Chromium developers (many of whom work for Google) written into the code.
- No screenshot? I skipped this step just because -- again -- the clear focus looking and acting like regular Chrome.
Status: Untested. While they do make a portable version available, I'm not optimistic that it actually keeps all settings saved locally. There's just too much in the Chromium software that wasn't written with portability in mind.
Home: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
Download: https://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/ ... mium.shtml (using Softpedia because the home page has a source-only release section)
Add-on compatibility: No idea. Some are likely to break but with the focus on maintaining standard Chrome behavior, it's also possible there won't be any issues. EDIT: Freakazoid covered this in a post below.
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Site note: in case this ever gets it's own entry, I think first mention belongs to freakazoid.
What about Ungoogled Android? There are a few efforts out there on this front, but one in particular that looks like it's coming along well is /E/OS: https://e.foundation/ There is a project with this specific name but I'm not linking to it as the program is a mostly empty fork and not a real project.