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In interesting article. Personally I use Ungoogled Chromium on my Mac occasionally, for things Firefox doesn't do well, but mostly I use Firefox and Safari. I
by jlokier 5y ago
In interesting article. Personally I use Ungoogled Chromium on my Mac occasionally, for things Firefox doesn't do well, but mostly I use Firefox and Safari.
In that article there's something I disagree with having tried:
> Most of the functionality of the patches are either in the best case minimally beneficial or can be reproduced with either a setting, a flag, or a switch,
Some years ago, on Linux, I tried finding all the command line flags necessary to use Chrome without having it talk back to Google. Unfortunately despite hunting for every option I could find (and there are a surprisingly large number of undocumented options), including with "strings", nothing I tried completely suppressed traffic to Google while using Chrome on sites not connected with Google.
My motivation at the time was to run my own local applications using Chrome as the UI, the way Electron is used now. It didn't work out because I failed to find a way to confidently suppress traffic to Google.
That experience is why I run Ungoogled Chromium now when I need Chrome functionality.