ungoogled-chromium
by ungoogled-software
ungoogled-chromium is a version of the Chromium web browser with Google web services and background requests to Google removed. It is meant for people who want a browser that behaves like Chromium but with more privacy, control and transparency.
Worth a lookEstablished, with a few things to check (listed below).
- Stars
- 28.1k +9 a day
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
- Runs on
- Your computer
- Setup
- Easy
- Language
- Python
- Age
- 4157 days
What you can do with it
- Browse the web with a Chromium-style browser that makes no background requests to Google
- Turn on extra privacy and control options through chrome://flags and command-line switches
- Set a custom search suggestions URL or disable search in the address bar
Ways a business could use it
- Give staff or contractors a familiar Chromium browser that sends less data to Google, helping with privacy policies
- Use it as a separate browser profile for client work, testing or research without a Google account tie-in
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Install it from a package repository for your Linux distribution (such as the AUR, OBS, a PPA or COPR), or use builds for macOS and Windows listed on the project's platforms page.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- Safe Browsing is disabled, so you lose Google's warnings about dangerous sites
- Updates depend on third-party maintained builds, so security patches may arrive later than in official Chromium
- Many privacy features must be switched on manually
- Some Google-dependent features, such as sync and some sign-in features, will not work
Checked 29 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
