Ungoogled Chromium
web browser based on the Chromium web browser
Ungoogled Chromium (stylized as ungoogled-chromium) is a free and open-source fork of the Chromium web browser that removes all Google-specific web services. 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.
Features
Disabling functionality that requires connection to Google, including Google Safe Browsing.
Replacing Google web domains with non-existent domains, and blocking internal requests to those domains.
Removing binary blobs from the Chromium source code and replacing them with custom alternatives.
Adding dozens of flags to change browser behavior that is otherwise unconfigurable.
Some features of regular Chromium do not work the same on ungoogled-chromium. For example, a special browser extension, called chromium-web-store, is required to install other extensions from the Chrome Web Store.
History
The ungoogled-chromium project was founded by a hobbyist with the username Eloston in 2015.
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