Description
You do not want Chrome but cannot give up Chromium’s compatibility — yet plain Chromium still talks to Google in the background, from Safe Browsing to host detection, all of it.
ungoogled-chromium does one thing: strip every dependency on Google web services out of the Chromium source — Google URL Tracker, Cloud Messaging, Hotwording, Safe Browsing, all disabled — and then block internal Google requests at runtime as a fail-safe in case a new version sneaks something back. Beyond that it stays as close to stock Chromium as possible: a drop-in replacement, not another fork with its own vision.
Extra privacy and control switches exist, but nearly all are off by default and must be turned on by hand — the project’s rule is to add control, not make decisions for you. BSD-3 licensed, over twenty-seven thousand GitHub stars, tracks Chromium releases; Windows builds come from the binaries page.
De-Googled: all Google-domain functionality and background requests disabled at build time and blocked again at runtime.
Binary pruning: pre-built binaries are stripped from the source and replaced with user-provided ones where possible.
Stock Chromium experience: UI, extensions and rendering match Chromium, so switching is seamless.
Optional privacy tweaks: a set of extra privacy and control flags you enable as you see fit.
Extension installs: no automatic Web Store link — extensions are installed manually, as documented.
ungoogled-chromium does one thing: strip every dependency on Google web services out of the Chromium source — Google URL Tracker, Cloud Messaging, Hotwording, Safe Browsing, all disabled — and then block internal Google requests at runtime as a fail-safe in case a new version sneaks something back. Beyond that it stays as close to stock Chromium as possible: a drop-in replacement, not another fork with its own vision.
Extra privacy and control switches exist, but nearly all are off by default and must be turned on by hand — the project’s rule is to add control, not make decisions for you. BSD-3 licensed, over twenty-seven thousand GitHub stars, tracks Chromium releases; Windows builds come from the binaries page.
Features
De-Googled: all Google-domain functionality and background requests disabled at build time and blocked again at runtime.
Binary pruning: pre-built binaries are stripped from the source and replaced with user-provided ones where possible.
Stock Chromium experience: UI, extensions and rendering match Chromium, so switching is seamless.
Optional privacy tweaks: a set of extra privacy and control flags you enable as you see fit.
Extension installs: no automatic Web Store link — extensions are installed manually, as documented.
