ungoogled-chromium is a completely Google-free browser

If you’re a Chrome user concerned about web privacy then you might have tried turning off telemetry settings, maybe switching to Chromium to lose all that Google code. Unfortunately, it’s not that easy. Even Chromium uses pre-built Google binaries and communicates with Google servers to provide various features. ungoogled-chromium is an open-source Chromium variant which disables or removes these remaining Google-related functions, replaces Google’s pre-built binaries by recreating them from source, and throws in some smaller tweaks and enhancements of its own. This de-Googling is quite extreme, and has some far-reaching consequences. Losing Google’s Webstore plugin means you can’t easily… [Continue Reading]