Amin Bandali <a...@gnu.org> writes: > Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: > >>> So the question is: can we push the Chromium package? I've read it's >>> almost ready[2]. >> >> The TODO list for convenience: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> * There is still some data transmitted when starting the browser for the >> first time. It seems related to the "domain_reliability" component. >> * Remove remaining "Web Store" links. Currently I've only found it in >> settings, under "accessibility" and "fonts". >> * Opening settings transmits a bunch of data, the next version will >> include the 'disable-translation-lang-fetch' patch from Inox. >> * PDFium is built, but does not seem to work (the 'install' phase >> probably needs tweaking). Might just disable it instead. >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> It would be *very* nice if the first and third items could be solved >> before merging, but I don’t consider them blockers. Would someone like >> to investigate one of these problems? >> >> As has been stated multiple times in the discussion of this evolving >> patch set, we cannot guarantee privacy, but we can make attempts to >> remove problems as they become known. This will remain an uphill battle >> and in future iterations of this package we should try to integrate more >> patches provided by other groups working on removing anti-features from >> Chromium. > > I highly recommend looking into ungoogled-chromium [0], which > "modifies Google Chromium to remove Google integration and > enhance privacy, control, and transparency". It's not exactly a > fork, but rather a series of patches and modifications they apply > to each Chromium release.
There is also the Brave browser https://brave.com/ > > In terms of documentation, they have a high-level description of > the various components and patches [1], and build instructions > for a few platforms and distros [2]. There was also an attempt > to make a nix package a while ago [3], which may be helpful to > look at. > > [0]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium > [1]: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/docs/design.md > [2]: > https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/docs/building.md > [3]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/30916
