The Dichromate Authors

The Dichromate Authors are an open-source collective that maintains a privacy-oriented rebuild of Chromium, stripping away the telemetry, background pings, and Google service dependencies baked into standard Chrome. Their single public offering, the Dichromate Web Browser, is aimed at Windows users who want the speed, extension ecosystem, and web-standard compatibility of Blink-based browsing without the data collection that normally accompanies it. Typical use cases include investigative journalists who isolate sensitive research profiles, developers testing sites in a clean Chromium environment, privacy enthusiasts migrating from commercial browsers, and enterprise IT teams that need a controllable, policy-friendly client for internal web apps. Because the project is rebuilt from unmodified Chromium source, it inherits support for Progressive Web Apps, Chrome DevTools, WebRTC, and the entire Chrome Web Store catalog, while patches disable Safe Browsing uploads, substitute default search, and allow group-policy lockdown of remaining network calls. Updates are delivered in a portable, self-contained folder that can be run without administrative rights, making the browser a drop-in replacement for scenarios ranging from forensic workstations to classroom laptops. The Dichromate Authors’ software is available free of charge on get.nero.com, where downloads are sourced from the project’s official GitHub releases via the winget package manager, always pulling the newest build and permitting unattended batch installation alongside other trusted Windows applications.