Want to ditch schmoogle but you are worried that there could be a problem due to your dependency on some particular app’s that you can’t source else where? This is a common deterence that ocurrs only when the penny drops and users suddenly realise that Screwgle has the upper hand. Ungoogled Chromium provides a utility to get you into the play store and allows you to install browser extensions without having an account but what if you didn’t choose UC as your browser? Damn, Damn, DAMN! Well… here’s a link to another very useful utility that allows you to download and install any other items that you can’t get your hands on. All you have to do is just go to the store and copy the URL for the app or extension you need. Don’t forget that not all app’s will work without Schmoogle’s system services software installed, it all depends upon what they do. Also remember that you need to avoid any that could contain spyware.
The clue in my post was ‘ungoogled’. You wouldn’t expect to find google apps and extensions in the home repository. Sure… occasionally there could be an odd one but it’s any port in a storm when there are no other options left on the table and you want to create an ungoogled system that meets with all your requirements.
I have used ungoogled chromium for over a year. It’s a little bit different updating extensions, but I love it. Always use it for ItsFOSS and administration like router, printer and Etesync. Chromium web store is available which is nice. It also includes running a tab as an app, which I use frequently.
Ungoogled Chromium is my go to browser for all my projects and has been for a while now and yes… the running of screwgle apps in a sandboxed tab is a big plus and unique to UC if you exclude Edge and Chrome itself of course. This project I’m working on at the moment involves taking a Oneplus 3T 6gb/64gb I bought on Ebay for £30, loading up Hydrogen 9.0 OS which TBH has to be the easiest degoogle I’ve done so far as Hydrogen 9.0 is the same as Oxygen 9.0 only with all the google elements removed so as to comply with Chinese law. My plan was to install UC and run any Gapps in the browser tab if and when I needed to, but when I went to Github to download UC for Android it turns out that this version is not maintained and no updates OTA or manual will be issued. Damn!
Running a browser without updates bothers me especially on a mobile OS I have to admit, but running sandboxed Gapps would have been a big plus. What to do? I dunno. The phone itself is a keeper. Arrived in it’s original box and looks as though it has never been taken out. 6gb/64gb spec’ for £30 just has to be a steal.
If you are happy to keep cliking on the links provided by the most nefarious hackers in plain sight then please yourself. The only reason I don’t is I prefer to keep my systems free of their hacking tools and there’s nothing bad about that.
How DARE YOU. Describing the only OS in the world filled with bloatware. Gazing out my windoz, wondering how many are looking for a way out. Mean while its right there.
Could you please explain what you mean?
Like you would explain to a small child or to a stupid person with IQ 50.
Not that I’m stupid (maybe I am ), but for me it seems my english is not up to the level to correctly understand you.
I’m not native english speaker, my skills in the language are not there…
I need some really simple and unambigous clarification.
Did I say somethig wrong?
(Maybe I expressed myself in a wronh way, I may need to clarify too.)
I think the clues are in the words ‘windowz’ and ‘bloatware’ both recently used, albeit in separate posts. Having said that any relevance to the thread or anything I or anyone else has said, remains elusive to say the least.
Getting back to the thread I’ve been doing some research on Cromite and it looks promising. Forked from Bromite after the original project leader decided to abandon the project, the new team has managed to get the project back on track by ‘borrowing’ some components from both UC and Calyx. They have put out a mission statement and are about to launch their own website promoting the OS as a viable alternative to Chromium. The good news for me is that all Cromite tabs are sandboxed to prevent data leakage, so that’s one hurdle out of the way and they are already providing updates to users through the F-droid apps platform. So it’s Hydrogen 9.0 (pie) AOSP, with the Cromite browser. Will be interesting to see just how well it compares with UC for functionality.
Chromium is Google’s OSS version although I believe it is true to say that it does contain some blobs (closed source components), but it’s Schmoogle so get used to it. Chrome is the closed source version of Chromium. Edge is almost a straight copy of Chrome with Microsoft branding and bing search engine so no surprises there either.
Although Chromium is open source it is known to contain closed source components with which to support google services. For example the sync service that allows you to share bookmarks, passwords etc, etc with other google devices. It is firmly in the grey area of FOSS, but doesn’t fall short of meeting with the licensing compliance requirements. So you can take Chromium and modify it into a new product whereas you cannot do same with Chrome.
