Join efforts with Ungoogled Chromium?

[artemislena]

Both projects try to achieve very similar things, but both have individual advantages. For example, Ungoogled is more customizable thanks to more Chrome flags, however Iridium is packaged for more distros… A larger developer team overall might also help patching the browser more frequently, as criticized in #274.

[summersab]

I'm going to be bold and tag @Eloston and @JustKidding from the Ungoogled project in this issue. I added the following comment on one of their issues a few weeks back: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/issues/640#issuecomment-668107443

I also opened a similar issue on Iridium's tracker:

293

There are a lot of shared features and goals. In addition, while Ungoogled has a bigger user base (looking at Git activity, at least), Iridium seems to have a better brand identity that could be used to help establish the project.

Thoughts?

[artemislena]

@summersab Sure, the higher Git activity also results in the better maintenance and such… But thanks for mentioning it over there as well (which is what I use now, anyway).

[GalacticSun]

@FantasyCookie17 What made you choose Ungoogled-Chromium over Iridium? Are there different / better features for one versus the other? I'm new to Iridium and am still learning about all this. Thanks.

[artemislena]

@GalacticSun Ungoogled Chromium is better maintained and such, whereas Iridium has an incredibly slow release cycle… Also it's more strict when it comes to keeping Google out and has more anti-fingerprinting options in chrome://flags.

[GalacticSun]

@FantasyCookie17 Okay, thanks, I appreciate the info.

[GalacticSun]

@FantasyCookie17 By the way, regarding fingerprinting, is it best to enable all those 3 options in chrome://flags (get*ClientRects() fingerprint deception, Canvas::measureText() fingerprint deception, Canvas image data fingerprint deception)? Is that enough to mitigate most fingerprinting?

Or do you think it is better to use this extension? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trace-online-tracking-pro/njkmjblmcfiobddjgebnoeldkjcplfjb

[artemislena]

You should enable those, and no, it may not be enough for everything, however, it's a start. Not a fan of Trace, it's not FOSS…

[scgf]

I know this is an old thread, but I use ungoogled-Chromium because it is available in a native ARM version for macOS. Iridium is still Intel-only on the Mac - which is ridiculous since the whole of Apple's current range of Macs run on the M1 ARM architecture. All other browsers have a native Apple Silicon version - Firefox, Waterfox, Librewolf, ungoogled-Chromium, Brave, Chrome, Vivaldi, Opera, Orion, even the ancient OmniWeb - there's not one which is Intel-only, apart from Iridium.