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Ungoogled chromium fdroid manual#

Unlike a lot of browsers right now (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, etc.), it's fully open source.

No screenshot? I skipped this step just because - again - the clear focus looking and acting like regular Chrome.

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.

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.

Ungoogled chromium fdroid manual#

* 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). * Remove all uses of pre-made binaries from the source code, and replace them with user-provided alternatives when possible. * Remove all code specific to Google web services * Remove all remaining background requests to any web services while building and running the browser Ungoogled-chromium addresses these issues in the following ways: In addition, Google designed Chromium to be easy and intuitive for users, which means they compromise on transparency and control of internal operations.

However, Chromium still has some dependency on Google web services and binaries. Synopsis wrote:Without signing in to a Google Account, Chromium does pretty well in terms of security and privacy.