Ungoogled-chromium: Use Edge Chromium to get rid of unwanted Google features
Hey, just wandering if it would be possible to use Edge Chromium code to disable or remove unwanted pieces of codes that still exist in Chromium. Apparently, Edge removes or disables a lot of features of the original Chromium code. Would it be possible to use the source code and implement it in ungoogled-chromium ? Thanks
gabrossmann
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I would expect Microsoft to add its own telemetry and similar. Even if they don't today, they might tomorrow, so ungoogled-chromium would have to track both upstream Chromium changes as well as Microsofts changes.
If you have sufficient interest, you can probably adapt the ungoogled-chromium patches to apply on Edge and create a new project under the ungoogled-chromium umbrella. But I don't see using Edge as an upstream for vanilla ungoogled-chromium as an option (does Edge even work on GNU/Linux and macOS?).
mbakke
on 21 Jul 2020
Ultimately, the point of ungoogled-chromium is to be free of any web service dependencies (by default). It just so happens that Google Chrome and Chromium depend only on Google web services.
I agree with @mbakke's points, so I'll close this as wontfix. However if you decide to pursue this idea and achieve some success, I'd be curious to know.
Eloston
on 29 Jul 2020
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I would expect Microsoft to add its own telemetry and similar. Even if they don't today, they might tomorrow, so ungoogled-chromium would have to track both upstream Chromium changes as well as Microsofts changes.
If you have sufficient interest, you can probably adapt the ungoogled-chromium patches to apply on Edge and create a new project under the ungoogled-chromium umbrella. But I don't see using Edge as an upstream for vanilla ungoogled-chromium as an option (does Edge even work on GNU/Linux and macOS?).