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    Thumbs up ungoogled-chromium

    I used to recommend SRWare's Iron, until I noticed it made unsolicited requests to googleapis, gstatic and 8.8.8.8, even with all privacy-compromising features turned off. Here's a forks of the Chromium browser that promises to be better.

    ungoogled-chromium

    ungoogled-chromium is a set of configuration flags, patches, and custom scripts. These components altogether strive to accomplish the following:
    * Disable or remove offending services and features that communicate with Google or weaken privacy
    * Strip binaries from the source tree, and use those provided by the system or build them from source
    * Add, modify, or disable features that inhibit control and transparency (these changes are minor and do not have significant impacts on the general user experience)
    https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

    I tried it and it seems to deliver so far.
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    I hope we are not in a time that we can't enjoy a google-free life. Nice addition anon
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    Right now an ultra light weight browser that supports chrome plugins, netflix and twitch would be the bomb.
    But these are awesome too Nice find
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sazzy View Post
    Right now an ultra light weight browser that supports chrome plugins, netflix and twitch would be the bomb.
    My dream browser would combine Opera 12's interface with Firefox's customizability and Chrome's speed.
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    I've been using ungoogled-chromium since creating this thread and have zero complaints. It is everything I (falsely) expected from Iron and Chromium back in the day.

    A Windows port of version 66 was recently released after a long time without updates. The new YouTube design is much faster than it was on version 55, probably a Google conspiracy to make us upgrade

    https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
    https://ungoogled-software.github.io...mium-binaries/
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    After using version 66 for two months I have two minor complaints now.

    • Chromium sends UDP broadcasts every two minutes even if the media router extension is disabled.
      Solution: open chrome.dll in a hex editor, replace the only instance of 239.255.255.250 with 0.0.0.0 and save.
    • Chromium always launches the crash reporter processes even if Breakpad is disabled.
      Solution: open chrome.exe in a hex editor, replace the only instance of crashpad-handler with xyxyxyxy-handler and save.

    Also, don't forget to block Google Public DNS, 1.1.1.1 is probably a better alternative.

    Code:
    rem if 1 = loopback interface
    route -p -4 add 8.8.8.8 mask 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 metric 1 if 1
    route -p -4 add 8.8.4.4 mask 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 metric 1 if 1
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    Quote Originally Posted by anon View Post
    After using version 66 for two months I have two minor complaints now.

    • Chromium sends UDP broadcasts every two minutes even if the media router extension is disabled.
      Solution: open chrome.dll in a hex editor, replace the only instance of 239.255.255.250 with 0.0.0.0 and save.
    • Chromium always launches the crash reporter processes even if Breakpad is disabled.
      Solution: open chrome.exe in a hex editor, replace the only instance of crashpad-handler with xyxyxyxy-handler and save.

    Also, don't forget to block Google Public DNS, 1.1.1.1 is probably a better alternative.

    Code:
    rem if 1 = loopback interface
    route -p -4 add 8.8.8.8 mask 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 metric 1 if 1
    route -p -4 add 8.8.4.4 mask 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.0 metric 1 if 1
    anon - did you try writing a suggestion on github? maybe the coder will read it.
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    I'm too lazy to check if this also occurs in the official Chromium and make a GitHub account to report it if it doesn't or report it to Google if it does.

    If anyone wants to do it, they're welcome, you don't need to credit me for the discovery or anything
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    Quote Originally Posted by pleasenocheating View Post
    You're a hero and a patriot I'll keep an eye on that issue and relay more details to you if they're required.
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    Thanks to pleasenocheating relaying my bug report for me, I found that upgrading to 67.0.3396.87-3 fixes the problem with the UDP broadcasts without having to patch anything as long as you disable the Media Router via group policy.

    Code:
    reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Chromium /v EnableMediaRouter /t REG_DWORD /d 0x0 /f
    However, it swaps that for a different issue: a 8 MB metrics file is created every time you start the browser, which can quickly bloat your profile. This problem is known and being worked on (see https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled...ment-403540390); a workaround for the time being is to disable writing to the BrowserMetrics directory via file system permission lists (note that on Windows at least, just making it "read only" won't work).
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    @anon - do you know of any user agent switchers that work with ungoogled-chromium?

    How did you upgrade to version 67? Did you compile the source code yourself? I couldn't find a prebuilt package for v67 on the site.
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    Quote Originally Posted by H265 View Post
    @anon - do you know of any user agent switchers that work with ungoogled-chromium?
    No, I just use the command line.

    Code:
    chrome.exe --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.99 Safari/537.36"
    How did you upgrade to version 67? Did you compile the source code yourself? I couldn't find a prebuilt package for v67 on the site.
    I couldn't find one either at first, but it turns out there is an unofficial build.

    https://github.com/Wyse-/ungoogled-chromium/releases
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    I just caught version 67 making requests to 127.0.0.1 in an endless loop when watching videos on YouTube... not sure which is to blame, the original code or the custom build, but I'll return to my hacked 66.0.3359.139-1 and wait for now.

    Also, I never even tried Iridium, but ungoogled-chromium includes its patches, so I'm renaming and editing the thread accordingly.
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    @anon - could you compile a newer version?
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