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can you say why degoogled chromium matters for tracking, or link to a writeup?
by awinter-py 3y ago
can you say why degoogled chromium matters for tracking, or link to a writeup?
- brucethemoose2 3y agoThe Ungoogled Chromium project itself is a pretty good summary. In a nutshell, Chromium (whether signed in or not) "phones home" to Google for a number of reasons, and the official Chrome builds do it even more (though in harder to observe ways since the changes are closed source). https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
- awinter-py 3y agowhoa fascinating -- I tried ungoogled chromium a while ago and it has come a long way it looks like some of their patches are now built into debian? Like on this list: https://udd.debian.org/patches.cgi?src=chromium&version=114.0.5735.133-1 https://udd.debian.org/patches.cgi?src=chromium&version=114.... disable/signin.patch seems to reference the ungoogled chromium repo