ungoogled-chromium Authors

The ungoogled-chromium Authors are an open-source collective that strips every last trace of Google-specific code, traffic, and telemetry from the Chromium browser engine while preserving full compatibility with Chrome extensions, modern web standards, and progressive-web-app functionality. Their single flagship product, ungoogled-chromium, is aimed at privacy-centric users, security researchers, enterprise administrators, and anyone who needs a lean, transparent browser for kiosk setups, automated testing, or everyday desktop use without background pings to Google’s servers. Typical deployment scenarios include locked-down corporate endpoints, forensic workstations, air-gapped lab environments, and personal systems where extension sandboxing, custom DNS, and certificate management must remain under local control. The project merges the rapid-release Chromium upstream with a constantly rebased set of patches that disable SafeBrowsing phoning-home, RLZ identifiers, Google Update, translation backends, and other baked-in dependencies, replacing them with configurable stubs or null services. Because the build pipeline is fully scripted and reproducible, third-party packagers can audit binaries and ship regional variants that respect additional data-protection regimes. Users who want to evaluate or standardize on this de-Googled browser can obtain it free of charge from get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always installing the latest upstream-synced release and supporting batch deployment of multiple applications.