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* when I need a chromium-based browser * Try ungoogled-chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium Put uMatrix, HTTPS everywhere

comment by lowwave · 2020-07-06 · in Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visited sites

Formerly worked with DuckDuckGo My advice: Install ungoogled-chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium Install these extensions: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock https://github.com/ilGur1132/Smart-HTTPS There is also a…

comment by niftylettuce · 2020-07-02 · in DuckDuckGo browser seemingly sends domains a user visits to DDG servers

Indeed, it is. That's why this exists: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by cosmojg · 2020-06-28 · in Ask HN: Is Edge any better or worse than Chrome on privacy?

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium would probably be better than a simple Chromium.

comment by yoavm · 2020-06-28 · in Ask HN: Is Edge any better or worse than Chrome on privacy?

If you care about this, my suggestion is to lend a hand to https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium and help them find a way to make the transition between Chrome and Chromium more seamless.

comment by mehrdadn · 2020-06-14 · in Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar

…Chromium upstream, here's instructions to checkout Chromium and rebase our patchset onto it". https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/tree/master/pa... Apart from the patches, UC does two more things: substitute all "google.com" (and…

comment by mbakke · 2020-06-07 · in Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

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Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

story by niksmac · 2020-06-07 · 266 comments

Why not use ungoogled-chromium? https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by jason0597 · 2020-06-03 · in Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data

Use the Ungoogled version from https://chromium.woolyss.com/ or https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/

comment by jikoo · 2020-05-24 · in Ask HN: Alternative to Google Chrome for web developers on macOS?

exactly, see: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by mister_hn · 2020-04-14 · in Jitsi Meet Electron 2.0

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

comment by throwaway9878 · 2020-02-28 · in Are ad blockers doomed or have we already won? A history lesson

idk about FF but I know ungoogled-chromium, been using that for years https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by haunter · 2020-02-16 · in Waterfox sold to System1, an ad company that bought a majority of Startpage

…in Bromite since 15 February 2018 to prevent this type of leaks; see also my reply here: [2] [0]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium [1]: https://github.com/bromite/bromite/blob/79.0.3945.139/build/... [2]:…

comment by csagan5 · 2020-02-04 · in Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/do... "those binaries that cannot be removed do not contain machine code." I'm not sure what's meant by them not containing machine code, but it does seem like some of the binary…

comment by prophesi · 2020-02-04 · in Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID

…browser. I don't work on these, but I am very grateful for those out there who do. ------- - [1]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium#downloads - [2]: Brew install via: `brew cask fetch eloston-chromium && brew cask install…

comment by mooreed · 2020-02-04 · in Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID

…better in that aspect, much better performance. Altho I use ungoogled-chromium not retail Chrome https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by haunter · 2019-12-30 · in Switching from Chrome to Firefox

…running every website you visit through their servers. Brave tries to disable most of this. 1. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium 2. https://brave.com/brave-tops-browser-first-run-network-traff...

comment by turblety · 2019-12-25 · in Brave Isn't Bad

…services. You can’t avoid Google if you use Chromium’s source code without patching it [1]. [1]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by hk__2 · 2019-11-13 · in Brave launches 1.0

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium ungoogled-chromium A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services. It also features some tweaks…

comment by Hdddissj · 2019-11-13 · in Brave launches 1.0

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

comment by dation · 2019-11-13 · in Brave launches 1.0

There's one popular effort: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by freetonik · 2019-11-12 · in Google Begins Testing Extension Manifest V3 in Chrome Canary

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story by rvz · 2019-11-12 · 0 comments

…use them for a while, and see which of them suits better for you. Links: Ungoogled Chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium Brave Browser: https://brave.com/ Waterfox: https://www.waterfox.net/ LibreWolf:…

comment by araxhiel · 2019-09-17 · in Is there a better browser than Firefox?

A chrome fork w/o Google "Google Chromium, sans integration with Google" https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium The caveat with this software is that it doesn't really have good automatic update support so there's a high user spend…

comment by DINKDINK · 2019-08-27 · in What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?

Do Ungoogled Chrome next: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium And if it's relevant Tor Browser

comment by DINKDINK · 2019-08-27 · in What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time?

…For those interested, there is an alternative build without all the google stuff baked in: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724409

comment by unknown2374 · 2019-08-21 · in The Browser Monopoly

That's definitely been a problem, however UnGoogled Chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium and Edge https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/ have fixed a lot of it.

comment by nailer · 2019-08-08 · in Linux Journal Ceases Publication: An Awkward Goodbye

…will do the same for Fuchsia. [0] https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/development/source_code [1] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by kgraves · 2019-06-29 · in Fuchsia Developers Website

Some of them, see https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium for a patched version. For me, Google's hold also manifested as complete absence of support for H.264 on Mac, because calling the Cisco's freely available openh264 is ‘too…

comment by aasasd · 2019-06-24 · in Give Firefox a chance

…hooks. 2. When we have a thriving project named Ungoogled Chromium , you'd start believing point 1. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by legends2k · 2019-06-16 · in Chromium and the Browser Monoculture Problem

…Web services and binaries. See “Ungoogled Chromium”, which was on HN homepage a couple weeks ago: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium#motivation-and...

comment by hk__2 · 2019-06-02 · in Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox

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

comment by paxys · 2019-05-30 · in Waterfox Browser

…Chrome, with Google integrations removed (and other privacy-conscious feature removals/additions). https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by lioeters · 2019-05-30 · in Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

Personally I use and can recommend ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by bdz · 2019-05-29 · in Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

…and Blink-based Edge are looking to be better and better options. Another is UnGoogled-Chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium Would love to see this latter option becoming something that appeals to a very large, mainstream…

comment by robbrown451 · 2019-05-29 · in Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

If you prefer to use a Chromium-based browser, ungoogled-chromium is a frequently recommended option: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium DuckDuckGo is the default search engine, and most of the Google-related tracking is…

comment by commoner · 2019-05-09 · in Ask HN: Is Using DuckDuckGo and Google Chrome Useless?

…of domains that are accessed by Chromium, see this regex used by the ungoogled-chromium project: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/30969fddf... More info at https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/tree/30969fddf... .…

comment by arghwhat · 2019-05-06 · in Firefox 66.0.4 is out, fixes disabled add-ons

…comes to privacy. That said, look into Ungoogled-Chromium or Iridium : https://iridiumbrowser.de/ https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium Both projects try to clean up the spyware that Chromium essentially is by design. See Bromite…

comment by Ultramanoid · 2019-05-06 · in Ask HN: Firefox Users, Alternative Browser

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

comment by auslander · 2019-03-13 · in Google has added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users

> maintain a patch that changes some of the more Google-oriented behaviour of Chrome This exists as: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by Jaruzel · 2019-03-13 · in Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web

It exists: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium The general concern about projects along these lines, e.g. IceWeasel, is that they won't keep up with security patches as quickly as the project it's forking. Maybe that's less of a…

comment by sfotm · 2019-03-12 · in Microsoft proves the critics right: We’re heading toward a Chrome-only Web

Also see Ungoogled Chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by mehrdadn · 2019-01-26 · in Open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems

…Chromium still integrates heavily with Google services. See project ungoogled-chromium for details: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by ___alt · 2018-12-26 · in WKWebView, an Electron alternative on macOS/iOS

…i found that post because the un-googled chromium author linked to it here: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/issues/640#iss...

comment by DavideNL · 2018-12-21 · in Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

take a look at ungoogle chrome if you are on mac or linux. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium Not sure why you don't like Brave? You can turn off all of the crypto currency and advertising stuff. I think its a good idea…

comment by russdpale · 2018-12-21 · in Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

Have you checked out Ungoogled Chromium? Link to their GitHub: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by adjagu · 2018-12-21 · in Brave taking cryptocurrency donations “for me” without my consent

…more?) of the repos in the externals directory when building chromium have no license specified. 0. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by craftyguy · 2018-12-13 · in Brave browser moves to Chromium codebase, now supports Chrome extensions

…which sync data with/ping the Google servers). [1] https://github.com/gcarq/inox-patchset [2] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by mftrhu · 2018-12-06 · in Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration

Alternative from the Reddit post: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

comment by everybodyknows · 2018-11-20 · in Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome

This is a really awesome project: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium I've really tried to use Firefox... Chrome just runs so much smoother, especially for media.

comment by leetbulb · 2018-11-20 · in Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome