ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium on Hacker News

I think they were referring to https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium (which I suspect is not what Ubuntu ships)

comment by switch007 · 2018-09-23 · in Why I’m done with Chrome

…!= ungoogled chromium, also not when it comes from FOSS repositories. This is ungoogled chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by lucb1e · 2018-09-23 · in Why I’m done with Chrome

I'm guessing that the parent is referring to this particular build/"fork": https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by ValentineC · 2018-09-23 · in Why I’m done with Chrome

Take a look at ungoogled chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by 0xb100db1ade · 2018-09-22 · in Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

…98% of the time - without selling my future data down the drain) (edited: to fix typos) - [1]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by mooreed · 2018-09-22 · in Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

Have you looked at this project? https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by 18pfsmt · 2018-09-21 · in Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

ungoogled-chromium is what I use https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by bdz · 2018-09-10 · in Vivaldi Browser: Chrome engine, no personal data collected

ungoogled-chromium is what I use https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by bdz · 2018-09-08 · in Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

…with Chrome (features and performance) but more with all the ties to Google (telemetrics etc) https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by bdz · 2018-06-21 · in Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

Chromium still comes with lots of googly bits https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by ufo · 2018-06-21 · in Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

…does come back into play. As for bad things in Chromium, as well as a fork that tries to fix it: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium As for news articles: When Mozilla does things, they're open about it, which is why news…

comment by Sylos · 2018-06-17 · in How Firefox is using Pocket to try to build a better news feed than Facebook

…The ungoogled-chromium project, which aims to remove from Chromium the privacy threats from Google: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium A number of features or background services communicate with Google servers despite the…

comment by forapurpose · 2018-06-12 · in Firefox does not have a well-designed privsep model

…basis for Google Chrome), this project tries to collect and fix all the privacy-infringing stuff: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium 4) There's many ways in which Chrome doesn't actively track you, but infringes on your privacy…

comment by Sylos · 2018-06-11 · in Alternatives to Google Products

…This is for example a project that tries to fix Chromium and it admits that it's an uphill battle: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by Sylos · 2018-05-31 · in Bye, Chrome: Why I’m switching to Firefox

Chromium is not a de-Googled Chrome. This is: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium Well, it's trying to be. It's still millions of lines of code and tens of thousands of design decisions made by Google. The same would be true for…

comment by Sylos · 2018-05-10 · in Firefox 60 released

Well, there's this: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by DavideNL · 2018-04-15 · in It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance

…to be the best option right now. Fork of Firefox: https://www.waterfoxproject.org Fork of Chrome: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by LeoPanthera · 2017-12-16 · in Firefox is on a slippery slope

Un-Googled Chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by LeoPanthera · 2017-12-16 · in Firefox is on a slippery slope

My search for a "just a browser" browser lead me to this: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium It's a fork of Chrome, with all links and connections to Google compiled out. I'm not a fan of using a fork of a major browser for the…

comment by LeoPanthera · 2017-12-16 · in Firefox is on a slippery slope

…a preference, and there are attempts to remove the Google tracking from the core of the project: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/releases

comment by libertyEQ · 2017-11-29 · in Hundreds of web firms record 'every keystroke'

Unless you use patched version like Ungoogled Chromium, not really. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by seba_dos1 · 2017-11-14 · in Firefox Features Google as Default Search Provider in the U.S.

They are a good ways behind stable: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/issues/262 . You might be opening yourself to security issues being this far behind.

comment by kodablah · 2017-11-13 · in How Firefox Got Fast Again

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium removes many of the nagging and background features related to Google services.

comment by mtmail · 2017-11-13 · in How Firefox Got Fast Again

…reflecting the reality. Additionally you can use ungoogled-chromium to take it to the next level. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium [1] Some chrome flags worth knowing... --incognito --disable-sync --disable-reading-from-canvas…

comment by chewz · 2017-10-31 · in Firefox takes a bite out of the canvas ‘super cookie’

…to see out of privacy-focused Mozilla. Are we going to need a world with unmozillad-firefox, à la https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium ? Sad day.

comment by leeoniya · 2017-10-07 · in Testing Cliqz in Firefox

And known to contain questionable things. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by Sylos · 2017-09-29 · in It’s time to give Firefox another chance

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium https://www.brave.com/

comment by mmphosis · 2017-09-15 · in Firefox Multi-Account Containers

You maybe want to checkout ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by zeratax · 2017-09-14 · in How to Live Without Google

…known to contain trackers. Well, known by some people at least. Here's a fork trying to fix that: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium As for other modern open-source browsers, http://otter-browser.org/ is still in relatively…

comment by 482794793792894 · 2017-09-06 · in “Google: it is time to return to not being evil”

There is https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium and also the tor browser. There is also netsurf and dillo but they are not as compatible due to the lack of js and incomplete css support.

comment by snakeanus · 2017-07-12 · in Firefox tracks users with Google Analytics in the add-on settings

…its privacy features: inox-patchset - https://github.com/gcarq/inox-patchset ungoogled-chromium - https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium Iridium Browser - https://iridiumbrowser.de/

comment by brynedwards · 2017-05-29 · in Browse Against the Machine

…had been in closed-source software, they could have only ever reported about rumors. [0]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by Sylos · 2017-04-17 · in Vivaldi makes History

…isn't going to be possible. There are several specific privacy complaints about Chromium, though: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/

comment by Sylos · 2017-04-02 · in Noiszy – A Chrome plugin that creates meaningless web tracking data

…trust them to patch your browser against malware? Feel free to contribute to ungoogled chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by angry_octet · 2017-03-24 · in Dropbox on Mac now updates itself with a process in background

Is taking a more secure baseline part of the plan? I'm thinking of https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by statictyper · 2017-02-23 · in Announcing DatHTTPD

…trainwreck :/. When Classic Theme Restorer [1] stops working, i'm sorry but i'm out....probably to https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium for the time being. my hope is that someone builds out a nice cross-platform browser around…

comment by leeoniya · 2017-01-28 · in I cannot continue working on my add-ons

…my main browser and find it faster and more stable than both standard Chrome and Firefox, YMMV. 1: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by rorygreen · 2017-01-24 · in Iridium Browser – A Chromium-based browser focused on privacy

Like this? https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by SparkyMcUnicorn · 2016-11-30 · in Javascript exploit actively used against TorBrowser

Ah, you have to look at the FAQ[1] [1] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/FA...

comment by eatbitseveryday · 2016-09-27 · in UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency

This patch https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/re... seems to contain the details of what is removed. Most of it seems innocuous enough, except the tracking (?) headers appended on some Google sites.

comment by CannisterFlux · 2016-09-26 · in UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency

Yeah, seems like it: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/re... and https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/commit/9163f6e... and https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/re... That is a very bad…

comment by lorenzhs · 2016-09-26 · in UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency

Looks like various parties have forked the codebase already. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by petre · 2016-09-26 · in Chromium is no longer supported for Chromecast

Yes, I've realized this and made an issue for this: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/issues/38 If you have the computing resources, you can easily take out the patch that does the "wishlist" changes you don't want.

comment by eloston · 2016-09-26 · in UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency

…are for. If you're looking for a statically-linked Linux binary, that will come in the future: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/issues/41

comment by eloston · 2016-09-26 · in UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency

…see anything like "transport_security_state_static.json" in this list here, so maybe it's fine: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/re... edit2: The preload list seems to be excluded from domain substitution…

comment by tomjakubowski · 2016-09-25 · in UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency

…way of stopping requests to google services by replacing the domains with invalid ones. Edit: see https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/8dd86477d...

comment by Retr0spectrum · 2016-09-25 · in UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency

Also something similar https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by temp · 2015-12-17 · in Inox – prevent data transmission to Google to get a minimal Chromium browser