Rather just use Firefox. Its an insanely good browser.
Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration
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#22Rather just use Firefox. Its an insanely good browser.
Made the swap recently and very pleased with the result.
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#23Rather just use Firefox. Its an insanely good browser.
lol
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#24C'mon. People are trying to stand up to Google. It's important to encourage this behavior, or at least not spread FUD with unsubstantiated claims of insecurity. EDIT: Lol, Google employees swarming HN on a Sunday. I guess people are getting a little nervous that a mass exodus from Chrome might be beginning. Hey look ma, an unsubstantive complaint about downvotes! Can't wait for my account to be penalized further.
Standing up to Google is meaningless if you’re not being smart. The number one feature of Google is their overwhelming intelligence. Throwing a fit and compiling some software semi-ignorantly doesn’t stand up to anything, much less this type of power.
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#25C'mon. People are trying to stand up to Google. It's important to encourage this behavior, or at least not spread FUD with unsubstantiated claims of insecurity. EDIT: Lol, Google employees swarming HN on a Sunday. I guess people are getting a little nervous that a mass exodus from Chrome might be beginning. Hey look ma, an unsubstantive complaint about downvotes! Can't wait for my account to be penalized further.
Standing up to Google is meaningless if you’re not being smart. The number one feature of Google is their overwhelming intelligence. Throwing a fit and compiling some software semi-ignorantly doesn’t stand up to anything, much less this type of power.
Yes it does. Literally doing anything other than blindly using their products and not giving a shit is standing up to them. It doesn't matter whether you're smart or not – anyone can do this.
It doubly stands up to them if you make a blogpost or a tweet saying "I did this. Here are the steps I followed." And this is less likely to happen if you discourage people from doing it.
Honestly, it's a bit depressing how little people care. We're supposed to be the activists and the world-changers. But when it comes to merely doing anything at all, you're likely to get ass-blasted just for attempting the lowest common denominator form of protest.
EDIT: Replying to your reply to my reply to your reply: If you click on a comment's timestamp, you can reply directly to it, even if HN's benevolent software doesn't normally show you the reply link.
The reply link hides in order to discourage pointless flamewars. Like this one.
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#26Coincidentally I had found out this one today and compiled it myself after a frustrating experience with `brew install chromium` (videos wouldn't play; inputs would blink). I guess this has more flags set up by default, and it makes it easier to target a stable commit to compile against. Also as a word of caution, don't use ungoogled-chromium binaries - they never are fully official/confirmed/reproducible. Running op…
>Just bite the bullet and run the 2h compilation process yourself. I don't think that's the best use of everyone's time or energy. Not to mention, it may be more error prone, or even insecure depending on what your base system is like. And you'll have to track updates. It seems like chromium is problematic to build in general. Debian hasn't marked it as reproducible. It is also not clear if it is possible to build it…
> I don't think that's the best use of everyone's time or energy.
Seems like there's a simple solution to this dilemma. Assuming build time is the single determining factor:
If the value of two hours' build time overnight is less than the value of a privacy-enabled build of Chrome, then build Ungoogled Chromium overnight.
Else, get Firefox.
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#27Wouldn't it be better to move onto Brave then?
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#28This seems like one of the most difficult solutions to the problem of switching to a browser that's not Chrome. Not only are there other browsers like Firefox and Safari, but there are other Chromium-based browsers like Vivaldi and Opera. I would have liked to read about some expected use-cases in the readme.
Yeah, Chrome isn't so good that I find a need for the open source community to maintain a fork of it. ⌘Space Safari and I get on with my life.
It's been interesting to experience Internet Explorer, then Firefox, Chrome, and finally coming back to operating system default browsers with Edge and Safari and being perfectly content.
The leverage Microsoft and Apple are utilizing with their operating system ecosystems is fairly pleasant, creating better out of the box experiences. Installing more software just feels like such a nit-picky user experience that I don't want, especially with refreshing my systems now and again.
Re: Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration
#29C'mon. People are trying to stand up to Google. It's important to encourage this behavior, or at least not spread FUD with unsubstantiated claims of insecurity. EDIT: Lol, Google employees swarming HN on a Sunday. I guess people are getting a little nervous that a mass exodus from Chrome might be beginning. Hey look ma, an unsubstantive complaint about downvotes! Can't wait for my account to be penalized further.
Standing up to Google is meaningless if you’re not being smart. The number one feature of Google is their overwhelming intelligence. Throwing a fit and compiling some software semi-ignorantly doesn’t stand up to anything, much less this type of power.
Replying to your reply: no it doesn’t. You learn that chrome takes a long time to compile, and that’s about it. Yes, blindly chasing convenience is the root of this evil, but expecting people to forgo all basic conveniences is not realistic, and therefore not valuable. Now if someone made a reproducible, trustable ungoogled Chromium that would actually practically help. Listening to your computer fans whir for two hours isn’t practical for most people, and is therefore not a practical real solution to this problem.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Standing up to Google is meaningless if you’re not being smart. The number one feature of Google is their overwhelming intelligence. Throwing a fit and compiling some software semi-ignorantly doesn’t stand up to anything, much less this type of power.
Yes it does. Literally doing anything other than blindly using their products and not giving a shit is standing up to them. It doesn't matter whether you're smart or not – anyone can do this. It doubly stands up to them if you make a blogpost or a tweet saying "I did this. Here are the steps I followed." And this is less likely to happen if you discourage people from doing it. Honestly, it's a bit depressing how litt…
Ah thanks for that tip. Yes let’s not flame :)