Ungoogled-chromium

Not to be confused with Chromium (web browser) or Google Chrome.

ungoogled-chromium is a free and open-source variant of the Chromium web browser that removes all Google-specific web services.^[5][6][7] It achieves this with a series of patches applied to the Chromium codebase during the compilation process. The result is functionally similar to regular Chromium.^[8][9]

ungoogled-chromium

ungoogled-chromium 134 on Windows 10
Developer(s)	Eloston and other hobbyists, collectively called "Ungoogled Software"[1][2]
Initial release	14 December 2015; 9 years ago (2015-12-14)
Stable release	134.0.6998.177-1[3]  (27 March 2025; 3 days ago (27 March 2025))
Repository	https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
Engine	V8, Blink
Operating system	Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, Android, BSD
Platform	x86-64, AArch64, ARMv7, IA-32
License	3-clause BSD License[4]
Website	github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

Features

• Disabling functionality that requires Google domains, including Google Safe Browsing.^[10]
• Replacing Google web domains with non-existent domains, and blocking internal requests to those domains.^[10]
• Removing binary blobs from the Chromium code and replacing them with custom alternatives.^[10]
• Adding dozens of flags to change browser behavior that is otherwise unconfigurable.^[10]

Some features of regular Chromium do not work the same on ungoogled-chromium. For example, a special browser extension, called chromium-web-store, is required to install other extensions from the Chrome Web Store.^[11]

History

The ungoogled-chromium project was founded by a hobbyist with the user name Eloston in 2015. It was first developed for Linux, then for other operating systems.^[12][13] Eloston used to release builds, but eventually he stopped doing so and allowed others to provide builds with his patches.^[14]

Starting in 2019, Eloston greatly reduced his involvement in the project, and other developers have continued to maintain the patches.^[1] In 2022, the GitHub repository was transferred from Eloston's personal account to a new "ungoogled-software" account.^[15]