A look into Ungoogled Chromium? A Google Chromium variant source for removing Google integration
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Ungooggled Chromium is an open source project that tries to disable Chromium dependency on google binaries completely. They claim that even when Chromium is compiled from the source, it does use pre-built binaries provided by google. So if we were to make Vivaldi more secure and private without any communication with google. May be the devs can take a look at this and implement them? Sorry if these have been cleaned up before vivaldi is compiled from Chromium. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium From Github:
A Google Chromium variant for removing Google integration and enhancing privacy, control, and transparency A number of features or background services communicate with Google servers despite the absence of an associated Google account or compiled-in Google API keys. Furthermore, the normal build process for Chromium involves running Google's own high-level commands that invoke many scripts and utilities, some of which download and use pre-built binaries provided by Google. Even the final build output includes some pre-built binaries. Fortunately, the source code is available for everything. 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)
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@David_Allen: Absolutely not. Vivaldi does not "phone home" to Google or anyone (It does send two kinds of anonymous usage statistics to Vivaldi if I understand correctly - which version is installed, and what features are activated. Again, anonymous). Cookies and site-tracking, neither of which are done by the browser, are your greatest privacy issues.
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@nirose Furthermore, Ungoggled Chromium is bad about keeping up with security updates. In other words: Using Ungoggled Chromium is a good way to get a virus. If Vivaldi were based on Ungoggled Chromium, Vivaldi would inherit that insecurity.
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@pathduck This time, I didn't miss the date. I knew the thread was five-years old. But the thread's topic (and my reply) is about as relevant now as it was five years ago, so I had no reason not to make that post.
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Thanks for that image, I'm sooo gonna keep it!
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