{"slug": "ungoogled-chromium", "name": "ungoogled-chromium", "category": "browsers", "category_name": "Browsers and extensions", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 7, "warners": 1, "score": 3.386, "rising": 2.67, "first": "2025-12-07", "latest": "2026-09-30", "why": "ungoogled-chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-portablelinux/releases) still supports MV3/uBO and is de-Googled.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 2, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "ungoogled-chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-portablelinux/releases) still supports MV3/uBO and is de-Googled.", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-portablelinux", "official_url": "https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["ungoogled-chromium", "Ungoogled Chromium"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 798602720, "item_id": 49912670, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49912670", "by": "t0mpr1c3", "date": "2026-09-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Also, ungoogle the browser: https://github.com/ungoogled-software", "excerpt": "Also, ungoogle the browser: https://github.com/ungoogled-software", "context": "", "use_case": "degoogled browsing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Let's Ditch Google (Verb)"}, {"id": 797251282, "item_id": 49828205, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49828205", "by": "qweqwe14", "date": "2026-09-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Happy Ungoogled Chromium user though", "excerpt": "I used VSCodium before and found it to be a massive waste of time for no benefit. A significant number of extensions either aren't in OpenVSIX (or whatever it's called), or don't work for some reason. Just disable telemetry in VSCode and you're good. Happy Ungoogled Chromium user though", "context": "", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"}, {"id": 792242864, "item_id": 49515179, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515179", "by": "ranger_danger", "date": "2026-08-31", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ungoogled-chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-portablelinux/releases) still supports MV3/uBO and is de-Googled.", "excerpt": "ungoogled-chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-portablelinux/releases) still supports MV3/uBO and is de-Googled. However, this paper[1] suggests that uBO Lite (MV3) which is still supported in the latest Chrome/chromium browsers, works at least as well for almost all users as the original (MV2) uBO, and, in some cases even better than before... so it's really no cause for alarm IMO. [1] ", "context": "", "use_case": "de-Googled browsing with uBO", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"}, {"id": 770241472, "item_id": 48140092, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140092", "by": "knightabu", "date": "2026-05-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "possible to use this https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium has a flag to store old history", "excerpt": "Brings back lots of memories. The only way i used that tool was back when Chrome stopped forever history near about the year 2014-2015 and limited users to 90 days of history. I was trying to wrap around my head like reading the comments trying how to put it back in. Wrong strategy without serious review does more of harm. More than a decade of this fiasco Google Chrome should bring it back forever history, now they ", "context": "", "use_case": "keeping old browser history", "switched_from": "", "story": "A History of IDEs at Google"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 792243472, "item_id": 49515217, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515217", "by": "littlecranky67", "date": "2026-08-31", "stance": "warn", "quote": "ungoogled-chromium simply doesn't support it", "excerpt": "I am a webdev and sometimes I have issues with ungoogled-chromium so I switched to firefox. One time I had to debug a push notification issue and realized ungoogled-chromium simply doesn't support it (but never displayed information about that when registering the service worker). 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A significant number of extensions either aren't in OpenVSIX (or whatever it's called), or don't work for some reason. Just disable telemetry in VSCode and you're good. Happy Ungoogled Chromium user though", "context": "", "use_case": "web browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"}, {"id": 792243472, "item_id": 49515217, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515217", "by": "littlecranky67", "date": "2026-08-31", "stance": "warn", "quote": "ungoogled-chromium simply doesn't support it", "excerpt": "I am a webdev and sometimes I have issues with ungoogled-chromium so I switched to firefox. One time I had to debug a push notification issue and realized ungoogled-chromium simply doesn't support it (but never displayed information about that when registering the service worker). That was years ago, situation might be different now.", "context": "webdev", "use_case": "web development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"}, {"id": 792242864, "item_id": 49515179, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515179", "by": "ranger_danger", "date": "2026-08-31", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ungoogled-chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-portablelinux/releases) still supports MV3/uBO and is de-Googled.", "excerpt": "ungoogled-chromium (https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-portablelinux/releases) still supports MV3/uBO and is de-Googled. However, this paper[1] suggests that uBO Lite (MV3) which is still supported in the latest Chrome/chromium browsers, works at least as well for almost all users as the original (MV2) uBO, and, in some cases even better than before... so it's really no cause for alarm IMO. [1] ", "context": "", "use_case": "de-Googled browsing with uBO", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"}, {"id": 789553921, "item_id": 49347120, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347120", "by": "LoganDark", "date": "2026-08-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Ungoogled Chromium lets you turn some of this stuff off", "excerpt": "When my Intel Mac ran out of disk space once, it became impossible to clear the space without rebooting (due to APFS's annoying journaling crap or whatever -- it would literally say \"rm: can not remove [whatever]: no space left on device\" or something), which caused Google Chrome to wipe all my local storage and cookies because it loves to do that when you run out of disk space, and there's no way to get that data ba", "context": "", "use_case": "web browsing", "switched_from": "Google Chrome", "story": "Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM"}, {"id": 770241472, "item_id": 48140092, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140092", "by": "knightabu", "date": "2026-05-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "possible to use this https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium has a flag to store old history", "excerpt": "Brings back lots of memories. The only way i used that tool was back when Chrome stopped forever history near about the year 2014-2015 and limited users to 90 days of history. I was trying to wrap around my head like reading the comments trying how to put it back in. Wrong strategy without serious review does more of harm. More than a decade of this fiasco Google Chrome should bring it back forever history, now they ", "context": "", "use_case": "keeping old browser history", "switched_from": "", "story": "A History of IDEs at Google"}, {"id": 739029825, "item_id": 46189364, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46189364", "by": "ahmetcadirci25", "date": "2025-12-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Ungoogled Chromium as my primary browser.", "excerpt": "My Personal Ad/Block Management Strategy Here is the block management setup I personally use regularly: Desktop * DNS blocking is active via NextDNS. * I use Ungoogled Chromium as my primary browser. * I use the uBlock ad-blocking extension along with its filters. * The SponsorBlock extension is very useful for skipping sponsored segments within YouTube videos. Mobile * DNS blocking is active via NextDNS. * To block ", "context": "", "use_case": "primary desktop browser", "switched_from": "", "story": "How I block all online ads"}]}