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@t3dboy t3dboy released this 09 Jul 09:00
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T3dmium 1.0.0 — first official release

T3dmium is a privacy-first web browser built on Chromium that sends nothing to Google — or anyone else — in the background. Real Chromium engine, real performance, real extension support, with every form of telemetry, analytics, and "phone home" traffic stripped out. The only network traffic it ever makes is traffic you start.

This is the first downloadable build: macOS, Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4).

Download

T3dmium-150.0.7871.46-arm64.dmg — Apple Silicon, macOS 12+

sha256  5f63ee55fe95851898afcfa342fe9b70fa4d94df3de6fd0307414c2328c017f8

Open the DMG and drag T3dmium to Applications. See INSTALL.md for full steps.

First launch: this is an independent, open-source build that is ad-hoc signed, not notarized by Apple. macOS will warn that it "cannot verify the developer" the first time. That's expected — right-click (Control-click) the app → Open → Open, once, and it runs normally afterward. The entire source is public, so you can verify exactly what it does rather than trust the binary blindly.

What makes it private

  • No telemetry, analytics, or usage metrics — UMA/UKM, RLZ, all removed.
  • No experiments/field trials (Finch/variations) — everyone runs the same code.
  • No crash uploads, no component-updater pings, no "check-in" traffic.
  • No Google account, Chrome Sync, or GAIA.
  • No Safe Browsing pings, no Google Cloud Messaging, no translate pings, no spellcheck download service (dictionaries are local), no promos/nags.
  • No baked-in Google API keys; the default search engine is not Google.
  • Do Not Track + Global Privacy Control: ON by default.
  • Third-party cookies: blocked by default.
  • Referrer trimming, partitioned storage, and a user-agent that matches Chrome exactly so you blend into the crowd.

Full plain-English rundown: docs/privacy-features.md.

Verified, not promised

Any browser can claim it doesn't phone home. T3dmium ships an automated network-audit harness (mitmproxy-based, in audit/) that fails the build if any non-user-initiated request leaves the machine. It runs in CI, and you can run it yourself.

Honest notes

  • Apple Silicon only for now. Intel macOS and Windows builds are planned.
  • This build uses a non-official configuration (release LTO/PGO optimizations off) so it builds reliably on modest hardware. It is fully functional — just slightly larger and not as speed-tuned as a commercial release binary.
  • On the roadmap, not yet shipped: a dedicated ad/tracker-blocking engine and a first-run DuckDuckGo search picker.

Built from Chromium 150.0.7871.46, on the ungoogled-chromium patch-set model. BSD-3-Clause. Maintained by Ted Roubour (@t3dboy).

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