I would like to install Ungoogled Chromium, but I can only find ungoogled Chromium as an older version on Arch AUR and a “Ungoogled Chromium XDG” as a newer build. Can someone please explain me what’s the difference between Ungoogled Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium XDG?

  • Possibly linuxMEnglish
    2•11 months ago

    Couldn’t you just install the flatpak? That might be way simpler

    • sudo_suOPEnglish
      2•11 months ago

      I can give it a try, but I would prefer a more “native” approach. I don’t like this flatpack/snap concept. But yes, it’s an alternative.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•11 months ago

    If you’re not keen on web DRM, might be worth considering Firefox. The less chromium users, the easier it is to stop companies implementing this.

    • sudo_suOPEnglish
      1•11 months ago

      Oh thats my standard browser. I need Chromium only for testing my webextensions and for Geforce Now. Since the last will not work with Firefox.

  • @BlessedDogEnglish
    1•11 months ago

    Isnt XDG a base directory spec? I could be wrong.

    AFAIK chromium is degoogled, what Google Chrome uses is a Googled version of chromium.

    • sudo_suOPEnglish
      1•11 months ago

      Yes, that’s my understanding of xdg. But I have no idea what this means for Ungoogled Chromium package. Base Chromium itself isn’t degoogled. It has most of the Google service’s active and enabled. Only a minor subset, like bookmark sync is disabled (but technically available). With Ungoogled Chromium, most (not all) Google dependencies are patched and inactive. At least this was the case as I last checked it. Since I prefer a mostly Google free environment, I would like to use Ungoogled Chromium for testing and a patched Firefox browser for standard web things.