Software:ungoogled-chromium
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| Developer(s) | Eloston and other hobbyists[1] |
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| Initial release | December 14, 2015 |
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| Website | {{{1}}} |
ungoogled-chromium is a free and open-source variant of the Chromium web browser that removes all Google-specific web services.[2][3][4] It achieves this with a series of patches applied to the Chromium codebase during the compilation process. The result is functionally similar to regular Chromium.[5][6]
Features
- Disabling functionality that requires Google domains, including Google Safe Browsing.[7]
- Replacing Google web domains in the Chromium source code with non-existent web domains and blocking internal requests to those domains.[7]
- Removing binary blobs from the Chromium source code and replacing them with custom alternatives.[7]
- Adding several (40+) new flags to change Chromium behavior that is otherwise unconfigurable.[7]
Some Chromium features do not work on ungoogled-chromium by default. For example, installing extensions directly from the Chrome Web Store requires its own extension.[8]
History
The ungoogled-chromium project was founded by a hobbyist with the user name Eloston in 2015. It was first developed for Linux, then for other operating systems.[9][10] Eloston used to release builds, but eventually he stopped doing so and allowed others to provide builds with his patches.[11]
Starting in 2019, Eloston greatly reduced his involvement in the project, and other hobbyists have continued to maintain the patches.[1] In 2022, the GitHub repository was transferred from Eloston's personal account to a new "ungoogled-software" account.[12]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Contributors to ungoogled-software/Ungoogled-chromium". https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/graphs/contributors.
- ↑ Cimpanu, Catalin (16 October 2016). "UnGoogled Chromium Removes All the Googley Parts from Chromium" (in english). https://news.softpedia.com/news/ungoogled-chromium-removes-all-the-googley-parts-from-chromium-509343.shtml.
- ↑ Tim Anderson. "When open source isn't enough: Fancy a de-Googled Chromium? How about some Microsoft-free VS Code?" (in en). https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/09/open_source_unbranded/.
- ↑ Duino, Justin (2016-09-30). "'Ungoogled' is the Chrome browser you love minus the Google" (in en-US). https://9to5google.com/2016/09/30/ungoogled-is-the-chrome-browser-you-love-minus-the-google/.
- ↑ Github Readme Objectives, ungoogled-software, 2022-10-04, https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium, retrieved 2022-10-04
- ↑ "Ungoogled Chromium" (in en-US). https://www.techspot.com/downloads/7181-ungoogled-chromium.html.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 "GitHub Readme Feature Overview". https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium#feature-overview.
- ↑ "chromium-web-store". https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store.
- ↑ "Release 51.0.2704.106-2 · ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium" (in en). 2016-08-11. https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/releases/tag/51.0.2704.106-2.
- ↑ "Release 51.0.2704.106-3 · ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium" (in en). 2016-09-03. https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/releases/tag/51.0.2704.106-3.
- ↑ ungoogled-chromium-binaries, ungoogled-software, 2022-09-15, https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/blob/647b3171cb832714d3480f0f96ae890a89e0d336/README.md, retrieved 2022-10-04
- ↑ "GitHub discussion". https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/discussions/1305#discussioncomment-2856521. "This repo is now part of ungoogled-software"
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