Thorium Ungoogled edition

[al3xxx]

Hello Alex,
Is there any chance for thorium ungoogled edition?

[DI555]

yes, double that, but might better to start using ungoogled patches at all, i mean totally, in Thorium!

[ms178]

If there were only a source PKGBUILD for the AUR which could be customized for a couple of special flavors, it would lessen the burden on Alex to maintain too much versions himself and offer the flexibility that people could try out their favored Thorium flavor.

[Alex313031]

@al3xxx @DI555 @ms178 Thorium already uses some patches from ungoogled chromium, however one of my philosophies was to not hamper usability. So I have not included any patches that disable the web store, google search, or sync. However, privacy and security patches, including removing things that "phone home" to google (besides the bare minimum to make the above things work properly), have been integrated. I don't plan on making an ungoogled thorium, because that is alot of extra work. However, if you wanted to make an ungoogled build with the compiler optimizations of thorium, one could just set up a normal ungoogled build, but before actually compiling, copy this dir over the chromium tree > https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium/tree/main/src/build/config

[ms178]

@al3xxx @DI555 You might want to modify the PKGBUILD of that Ungoogled Chromium package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ungoogled-chromium

It is a source package, so compiling Chromium yourself might take a while.

[DI555]

@Alex313031 , could you pls integrate to Thorium and all flagged ungoogled chromium patches (i mean those with flags)???
they all - are OPTIONAL/SWITCHABLE , cause all have flags, and very usefull , for example, - like uncrypted profile for portable using, keep all history(not only 90 days max) and force handle .crx file(to force installing extensions) !!!

here they all are:
github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/docs/flags.md

[gz83]

@Alex313031 , could you pls integrate to Thorium and all flagged ungoogled chromium patches (i mean those with flags)??? they all - are OPTIONAL/SWITCHABLE , cause all have flags, and very usefull , for example, - like uncrypted profile for portable using, keep all history(not only 90 days max) and force handle .crx file(to force installing extensions) !!!

here they all are: github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/docs/flags.md

@DI555

I think this is blind stamping. Adding a lot of flags is not a rational behavior. In addition, this will increase the development pressure on our team. If we want to add new flags, I think we must conduct a certain evaluation.

[Username23453]

Hey @DI555 , I cant find a way to message you, can we talk to each other about privacy, browsers, cyber security,etc? I know a lot about Thorium,etc. Heres my email: my_email111111@protonmail.com

[DI555]

@gz83 , but why not? - theese flags are great features for browser, really GREAT features!!!

[gz83]

@gz83 , but why not? - theese flags are great features for browser, really GREAT features!!!

@DI555

Adding more patches means that we need to modify more files, and the update method of Thorium's repo is manual rebase. When there are many files that need to be modified, the time required for rebase will be very long.

Also, the patches in ungoogled-chromium don't exactly work on Thorium. Even if we want to add them, our development team needs to select them in addition to evaluating them.

Alex is the person in charge of the entire project, and he will make the final decision on Thorium's function adjustments (addition or deletion), and we still need to listen to his opinions. @Alex313031

[Alex313031]

@gz83 I have added the unencrypted profile flags. I add flags on a case by case basis. I.E. if it is something almost everyone would want, or someone specifically asks for it.

It also wouldn't be as cut and dry as "add all the flags" because 1. I have added flags of my own, and that would cause file merge conflicts trying to use ungoogled's .patch, 2. as @gz83 said, not all of the flags would be applicable, and some of them I already have forced to true in source code, and 3. thorium is not always built to the same version as ungoogled, which introduces more issues.

If I could cleanly and easily add all of ungoogled's patches I would. But sorry. However, if there is a specific flag that you use alot and want me to add, you can tell me here or in another issue, and we will evaluate it.

[rmdhnreza]

Any chance adds disable qr, remove tabsearch & Omnibox Autocomplete Filtering flags? I know many people use that features, but I used Ungoogled Chromium because the flags are really useful for me.

[gz83]

Any chance adds disable qr, remove tabsearch & Omnibox Autocomplete Filtering flags? I know many people use that features, but I used Ungoogled Chromium because the flags are really useful for me.

@rmdhnreza

Thanks for your suggestion, we will evaluate whether to add these patches

[Flashwalker]

If any ungoogled patches have been applied, they are clearly not enough #119 (comment)

IMHO connections to any Google domain/service should only be made explicitly on demand.