recaptcha VS ungoogled-chromium

Google reCAPTCHA reCAPTCHA Documentation Understanding CAPTCHA By understanding the complexities of CAPTCHA and the reasons behind its effectiveness, developers can better implement these systems to protect their websites from malicious activities while ensuring a seamless user experience for legitimate users.

I know Google has a ReCAPTCHA service, and I think it’s free up to scales I would probably never use up. Still, I’d prefer something than can be self hosted so is totally free. And where you don't have to register your domain with a 3rd party, you can just use it on any domain.

The traditional way of using "I am not a robot" Recpatcha seems to be with a

## Step 1: Obtaining reCAPTCHA Keys Go to the Google reCAPTCHA website (https://www.google.com/recaptcha) and sign in with your Google account. Click the + sign and fill in the details as follows:

* https://www.google.com/recaptcha/ * allow * https://www.gstatic.com/recaptcha/ * allow * https://www.google.com/js/ * allow * captcha.com * allow * recaptcha.net * allow

https://www.google.com/recaptcha/ * allow

I think you want:

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

Without signing in to a Google Account, Chromium does pretty well in terms of security and privacy. However, Chromium still has some dependency on Google web services and binaries. In addition, Google designed Chromium to be easy and intuitive for users, which means they compromise on transparency and control of internal operations.

ungoogled-chromium addresses these issues in the following ways:

* - Remove all remaining background requests to any web services while building and running the browser*

* - Remove all code specific to Google web services*

* - Remove all uses of pre-made binaries from the source code, and replace them with user-provided alternatives when possible.*

* - Disable features that inhibit control and transparency, and add or modify features that promote them (these changes will almost always require manual activation or enabling).*

Cromite[0] is the best on Android, it's a privacy-oriented open source patchset on top of Chromium.

Cromite has a desktop build, but it's a bit more experimental than the mobile build, so you can use Ungoogled Chromium[1] instead. Ungoogled is also a privacy-oriented open source patchset on top of Chromium. Check the beta flags to enable some more interesting features like getClientRect anti-fingerprinting measures (unfortunately breaks some React-based sites that go into infinite re-render loop).

Both of these browsers selectively include patches from Brave, but they are community-oriented builds so imo more trustworthy than Brave, which continues to package various shady anti-features and always will because it's backed by a for-profit company.

LibreWolf[2] is the nicest Firefox-based one for desktop, I think. It's pretty hardcore, though, I most only use it to visit mainstream social media sites.

I tried a bunch of the Firefox-based ones on mobile and none of them clicked for me. Cromite is just too slick on Android. Put the address bar at the bottom and off you go. Only downside is no online syncing of tabs and bookmarks, but meh. You can save all open tabs to bookmark bar in one hit then export your bookmarks, send the file through whatever E2EE channel you want to your other device and import then reopen them again.

[0] https://github.com/uazo/cromite

[1] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

[2] https://librewolf.net/

For those that like Chromium but want to remove any integration with Google, there's Ungoogled Chromium

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

If you're entirely partial to Chromium browsers, use Ungoogled Chrome https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

what about https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

Firefox or Ungoogled Chromium (needs to update uBlock manually) in Incognito window with unchanged vanilla uBlock Origin with lists updated and no other plugins and without YouTube account. Works perfectly. Also FreeTube.

Ungoogled Chromium is a Chromium-based browser with Google services stripped out.

- Project and source: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

- Binaries: https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-bina...

Using these sort of downstream patch set browsers is rarely a good idea. If it has multiple full-time developers from a respected org dedicated to it, then it can be justifiable (Tor Browser, Brave), but take a look at the gaps in time for these two pages:

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/rel...

https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/c/ch...

There's often days you're going without security patches. If you want a browser without Google tracking, Firefox is a much better choice.