ungoogled-chromium VS brave-core

Compare ungoogled-chromium vs brave-core and see what are their differences.

ungoogled-chromium

Google Chromium, sans integration with Google (by ungoogled-software)

brave-core

Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues (by brave)
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20,849 2,507
1.1% 1.0%
8.8 10.0
10 days ago 6 days ago
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ungoogled-chromium

Posts with mentions or reviews of ungoogled-chromium. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-07-09.
  • Google Chrome has a special hidden API accesible only from *.google.com
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jul 2024
  • I'm Funding Ladybird Because I Can't Fund Firefox
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jul 2024
    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).*

  • console.log(DOOM)
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2024
  • Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2024
    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/

  • Browsers Are Weird
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2024
    For those that like Chromium but want to remove any integration with Google, there's Ungoogled Chromium

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

  • What is the safest and best browser to use???
    3 projects | /r/browsers | 11 Dec 2023
    If you're entirely partial to Chromium browsers, use Ungoogled Chrome https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
  • Mozilla CEO received $6,9m salary in 2022, a $2m increase from 2021, meanwhile Firefox has lost 30m of its userbase since 2020.
    1 project | /r/browsers | 6 Dec 2023
    what about https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
  • any working adBlock for YouTube?
    3 projects | /r/Piracy | 31 Oct 2023
    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.
  • Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2023
    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...

  • Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2023
    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.

brave-core

Posts with mentions or reviews of brave-core. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ungoogled-chromium and brave-core you can also consider the following projects:

chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source

uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

bromite - Bromite is a Chromium fork with ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!

Vanadium - Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS repositories and doesn't include patches not relevant to the build targets used on GrapheneOS.

browser

iceraven-browser - Iceraven Browser

iridium-browser - Iridium Browser source code

brave-browser - Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.

thorium - Chromium fork named after radioactive element No. 90. Windows and MacOS/Raspi/Android/Special builds are in different repositories, links are towards the top of the README.md.

uBlock-issues - This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin

Firefox-UI-Fix - 🦊 I respect proton UI and aim to improve it.

fingerprintjs - The most advanced browser fingerprinting library.

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