All Projects → Eloston → Ungoogled Chromium

Eloston / Ungoogled Chromium

Licence: bsd-3-clause
Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

Programming Languages

python
139335 projects - #7 most used programming language
shell
77523 projects

Projects that are alternatives of or similar to Ungoogled Chromium

Whotracks.me
Data from the largest and longest measurement of online tracking.
Stars: ✭ 189 (-98.61%)
Mutual labels:  transparency, privacy
Bromite
Bromite a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!
Stars: ✭ 3,256 (-75.98%)
Mutual labels:  privacy, chromium
Webrtc Leak Prevent
Prevent WebRTC leaks in Chromium browsers.
Stars: ✭ 182 (-98.66%)
Mutual labels:  privacy, chromium
Tor2web
Tor2web is an HTTP proxy software that enables access to Tor Hidden Services by mean of common web browsers
Stars: ✭ 531 (-96.08%)
Mutual labels:  transparency, privacy
Scriptsafe
a browser extension to bring security and privacy to chrome, firefox, and opera
Stars: ✭ 434 (-96.8%)
Mutual labels:  privacy, control
Inox Patchset
Inox patchset tries to provide a minimal Chromium based browser with focus on privacy by disabling data transmission to Google.
Stars: ✭ 335 (-97.53%)
Mutual labels:  privacy, chromium
Browser Base
Modern and feature-rich web browser base based on Electron
Stars: ✭ 2,417 (-82.17%)
Mutual labels:  privacy, chromium
Privacy Redirect
A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram & Google Maps requests to privacy friendly alternatives.
Stars: ✭ 342 (-97.48%)
Mutual labels:  privacy, chromium
Rattlesnakeos Stack
Build your own privacy and security focused Android OS in the cloud.
Stars: ✭ 490 (-96.39%)
Mutual labels:  privacy, chromium
Awesome Humane Tech
Promoting Solutions that Improve Wellbeing, Freedom and Society
Stars: ✭ 2,234 (-83.52%)
Mutual labels:  transparency, privacy
Polybar Pulseaudio Control
A feature-full Polybar module to control PulseAudio
Stars: ✭ 148 (-98.91%)
Mutual labels:  control
Dontclickshit
Як не стати кібер-жертвою
Stars: ✭ 149 (-98.9%)
Mutual labels:  privacy
Upribox
Usable Privacy Box
Stars: ✭ 153 (-98.87%)
Mutual labels:  privacy
Privacyfox
PrivacyFox tweaks various preferences in Firefox in order to enhance the privacy of users; it will also try to enforce these changes to maintain your privacy online.
Stars: ✭ 155 (-98.86%)
Mutual labels:  privacy
Awesome Federated Learning
All materials you need for Federated Learning: blogs, videos, papers, and softwares, etc.
Stars: ✭ 149 (-98.9%)
Mutual labels:  privacy
Spotcommander
The most intuitive and feature-rich remote control for Spotify for Linux
Stars: ✭ 152 (-98.88%)
Mutual labels:  control
Zom Android Xmpp
THIS PROJECT IS NOW CLOSED. WE HAVE MOVED TO A NEW ZOM 2.0 MATRIX CORE. FOLLOW THE LINK!
Stars: ✭ 148 (-98.91%)
Mutual labels:  privacy
Gretel Synthetics
Differentially private learning to create fake, synthetic datasets with enhanced privacy guarantees
Stars: ✭ 147 (-98.92%)
Mutual labels:  privacy
Open Quadruped
An open-source 3D-printed quadrupedal robot. Intuitive gait generation through 12-DOF Bezier Curves. Full 6-axis body pose manipulation. Custom 3DOF Leg Inverse Kinematics Model accounting for offsets.
Stars: ✭ 148 (-98.91%)
Mutual labels:  control
Fairemail
Fully featured, open source, privacy friendly email app for Android
Stars: ✭ 2,570 (-81.04%)
Mutual labels:  privacy

ungoogled-chromium

A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency

Help is welcome! See the docs/contributing.md document for more information.

Objectives

In descending order of significance (i.e. most important objective first):

  1. ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services.
  2. ungoogled-chromium retains the default Chromium experience as closely as possible. Unlike other Chromium forks that have their own visions of a web browser, ungoogled-chromium is essentially a drop-in replacement for Chromium.
  3. ungoogled-chromium features tweaks to enhance privacy, control, and transparency. However, almost all of these features must be manually activated or enabled. For more details, see Feature Overview.

In scenarios where the objectives conflict, the objective of higher significance should take precedence.

Content Overview

Motivation and Philosophy

Without signing in to a Google Account, Chromium does pretty well in terms of security and privacy. However, Chromium still has some dependency on Google web services and binaries. In addition, Google designed Chromium to be easy and intuitive for users, which means they compromise on transparency and control of internal operations.

ungoogled-chromium addresses these issues in the following ways:

  1. Remove all remaining background requests to any web services while building and running the browser
  2. Remove all code specific to Google web services
  3. Remove all uses of pre-made binaries from the source code, and replace them with user-provided alternatives when possible.
  4. 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).

These features are implemented as configuration flags, patches, and custom scripts. For more details, consult the Design Documentation.

Feature Overview

This section overviews the features of ungoogled-chromium. For more detailed information, it is best to consult the source code.

Contents of this section:

Key Features

These are the core features introduced by ungoogled-chromium.

  • Disable functionality specific to Google domains (e.g. Google Host Detector, Google URL Tracker, Google Cloud Messaging, Google Hotwording, etc.)
  • Block internal requests to Google at runtime. This feature is a fail-safe measure for the above, in case Google changes or introduces new components that our patches do not disable. This feature is implemented by replacing many Google web domains in the source code with non-existent alternatives ending in qjz9zk (known as domain substitution; see docs/design.md for details), then modifying Chromium to block its own requests with such domains. In other words, no connections are attempted to the qjz9zk domain.
  • Strip binaries from the source code (known as binary pruning; see docs/design.md for details)

Enhancing Features

These are the non-essential features introduced by ungoogled-chromium.

  • Add many new command-line switches and chrome://flags entries to configure new features (which are disabled by default). See docs/flags.md for the exhaustive list.
  • Add Suggestions URL text field in the search engine editor (chrome://settings/searchEngines) for customizing search engine suggestions.
  • Add more URL schemes allowed to save page schemes.
  • Add Omnibox search provider "No Search" to allow disabling of searching
  • Add a custom cross-platform build configuration and packaging wrapper for Chromium. It currently supports many Linux distributions, macOS, and Windows. (See docs/design.md for details on the system.)
  • Force all pop-ups into tabs
  • Disable automatic formatting of URLs in Omnibox (e.g. stripping http://, hiding certain parameters)
  • Disable intranet redirect detector (extraneous DNS requests)
    • This breaks captive portal detection, but captive portals still work.
  • (Iridium Browser feature change) Prevent URLs with the trk: scheme from connecting to the Internet
    • Also prevents any URLs with the top-level domain qjz9zk (as used in domain substitution) from attempting a connection.
  • (Windows-specific) Do not set the Zone Identifier on downloaded files

Borrowed Features

In addition to the features introduced by ungoogled-chromium, ungoogled-chromium selectively borrows many features from the following projects (in approximate order of significance):

Supported Platforms and Distributions

See docs/platforms.md for a list of supported platforms.

Other platforms are discussed and tracked in this repository's Issue Tracker. Learn more about using the Issue Tracker under the section Contributing, Reporting, Contacting.

Downloads

Automated or maintained builds

ungoogled-chromium is available in the following software repositories:

If your GNU/Linux distribution is not listed, there are distro-independent builds available via the following package managers:

  • Flatpak: Available in the Flathub repo as com.github.Eloston.UngoogledChromium
  • GNU Guix: Available as ungoogled-chromium
  • NixOS/nixpkgs: Available as ungoogled-chromium

Third-party binaries

If your operating system is not listed above, you can also try to Download binaries from here

NOTE: These binaries are provided by anyone who are willing to build and submit them. Because these binaries are not necessarily reproducible, authenticity cannot be guaranteed; In other words, there is always a non-zero probability that these binaries may have been tampered with. In the unlikely event that this has happened to you, please report it in a new issue.

These binaries are known as contributor binaries.

Source Code

This repository only contains the common code for all platforms; it does not contain all the configuration and scripts necessary to build ungoogled-chromium. Most users will want to use platform-specific repos, where all the remaining configuration and scripts are provided for specific platforms:

Find the repo for a specific platform here.

If you wish to include ungoogled-chromium code in your own build process, consider using the tags in this repo. These tags follow the format {chromium_version}-{revision} where

  • chromium_version is the version of Chromium used in x.x.x.x format, and
  • revision is a number indicating the version of ungoogled-chromium for the corresponding Chromium version.

Additionally, most platform-specific repos extend their tag scheme upon this one.

Building the source code: See docs/building.md

Mirrors

List of mirrors:

FAQ

See the frequently-asked questions (FAQ) on the Wiki

Building Instructions

See docs/building.md

Design Documentation

See docs/design.md

Contributing, Reporting, Contacting

Credits

Related Projects

List of known projects that fork or use changes from ungoogled-chromium:

  • Bromite (Borrows some patches. Features builds for Android)
  • ppc64le fork (Fork with changes to build for ppc64le CPUs)

License

BSD-3-clause. See LICENSE

Note that the project description data, including the texts, logos, images, and/or trademarks, for each open source project belongs to its rightful owner. If you wish to add or remove any projects, please contact us at [email protected].