ungoogled-chromium
Open-source web browser eliminates Google integration, disables background communications, strips non-free binaries, and includes privacy-focused patches and scripts for full transparency, control, and compatibility with Chromium extensions across major platforms.
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Security-focused
- Support for Themes
- Lightweight
Features
- Chromium-based Browsers
- Bloatware Remover
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- No Tracking
- Based on Blink engine
- Dark Mode
- Ad-free
- Portable
- Built-in Ad-blocker
- No registration required
- Multiple languages
- Works Offline
- Integrated Password Manager
- No Logs
Tags
- webkit-engine
- degoogled
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What is ungoogled-chromium?
A Google Chromium variant for removing Google integration and enhancing privacy, control, and transparency.
A number of features or background services communicate with Google servers despite the absence of an associated Google account or compiled-in Google API keys. Furthermore, the normal build process for Chromium involves running Google's own high-level commands that invoke many scripts and utilities, some of which download and use pre-built binaries provided by Google. Even the final build output includes some pre-built binaries. Fortunately, the source code is available for everything.
ungoogled-chromium is a set of configuration flags, patches, and custom scripts. These components altogether strive to accomplish the following:
- Disable or remove offending services and features that communicate with Google or weaken privacy
- Strip binaries from the source tree, and use those provided by the system or build them from source
- Add, modify, or disable features that inhibit control and transparency (these changes are minor and do not have significant impacts on the general user experience)
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Comments and Reviews
Privacy-wise, this is one of the best browser options out there. The addon installation process is explained in detail on its official site . The project's philosophy is remarkable in its honesty - they do not monetize your privacy concerns like some other projects out there. Ungoogled Chromium doesn't send unsolicited request anywhere and indeed does disable all of Google's spyware. The browser is frequently updated too.
Of course, being de-googled it requires the user to do some things manually. But this is a very small price to pay for not submitting to Google botnet. Absolutely worth it. Usage with privacy enhancing add-ons such as uMatrix, HTTPS Everywhere and Decentraleyes is highly recommended.
One thing to note - it still does suffer from Google's terrible "design" decisions, so there's still that clinically sterile, eye bleeding white material/flat interface by default with poorly organized, crammed menus.
Removes everything that connects to Google services (including the "Ad Topics" that would track you in the browser). This is great for privacy! But it also removes things like Safe Browsing and syncing. It's in a weird middle zone: it leaks less data than Chromium or Chrome, but it's less complete than, say, Vivaldi, and while it's lighter weight, it's not as lightweight as Falkon. For me, the gains aren't quite enough to make up for the rough edges and missing features. (YMMV)
privacy-centered and open source
Everything excellent, Just One con that Automatic updates of the browser are not there, We have to manually download them, I mean I do know that due to being privacy-focused, It is not giving them directly but at least there should be an opting method where we can select if we want to receive updates or not.
So far a really good alternative to the beast of google, it requires a little bit of manual installation for extentions but when you are in is running smooth.
The best way to use a Chromium-based web browser! I've been using Firefox as my main web browser for years, and I don't plan on switching to anything else, but sometimes, I need a Chromium-based browser to test some things, and Ungoogled Chromium is the best one out there.
I seemed to have to uninstall Chromium to install Ungoogled Chromium.. tough to tell because they look alike, but you can see the difference in the Ungoogled Chromium Opening Page which shows the version. You can reach Chrome Store extensions via Google Search, but you don't see the big green Install Button, even if you sign into your Google account. I like the concept, but Ungoogled Chromium continues to be difficult to manuver since even struggling to install. I even have to type out the suffix for sites like .com aside from wondering how I can load a good adblocker. I'd like this if the author supplied more work-arounds.