![]() The browser that is provided by my “ chromium-ungoogled” package is as good as the original “ chromium” browser in terms of core functionality and perhaps it is even a tad faster than the original. I already wrote about “ un-Googled Chromium“, the browser which is stripped from everything that would attempt to connect to a Google service. But (again unfortunately) those sync solutions are fully entangled with their own browser products. The same is not possible for Chromium browsers unfortunately, although Brave and Vivaldi – two not completely open source Chromium derivatives – have developed their own cloud sync server implementations. You use Mozilla’s own cloud sync or else setup a Sync Server on a machine which is fully under your control. I will assume you are using Mozilla’s Firefox and that browser has its own open source cloud sync server. If you don’t use Chrome or Chromium, then this article is probably not relevant. Google took away this Chrome Sync from us Linux Chromium users, and it’s important to come with alternatives. Compiling the sources on Slackware allowed me to deal with some of the privacy concerns. The Chromium browser packages that have been provided in most Linux distros for many years, will lose a prime selling point (being able to sync your browser history, bookmarks and online passwords to the cloud securely) while Google will still be able to follow your browsing activities and monetize that data.įor many people (including myself) using Chromium, the ability to sync your private browser data securely to Google’s cloud and thus get a unified browser experience on all platforms (Linux, Android, Windows, Mac operating systems) certainly outweighed the potential monetary gain for Google by using a product with its origins in Google – like Chromium. ![]() All other Chromium-based software products are blocked from what Google calls “their private API services”.Īll non-Google-controlled 3rd parties providing software binaries based on the Chromium source code are affected, not just my Slackware package. I’d like to remind you that after 15 March 2021 the Chrome Sync service provided by Google’s cloud infrastructure will only be accessible by Google’s own (partly closed-source) Chrome browser. If you run into anything that is not clear, or does not work for you, please let me know in the comments section!
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