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Ungoogled Arc Browser #160

Closed ghost closed 2 months ago

ghost commented 2 months ago

Would you guys ever consider making an "Ungoogled Arc Browser" ?

Basically, Arc Browser, but with all the spyware features removed just like for Ungoogled Chromium.

Cubik65536 commented 2 months ago

Would you guys ever consider making an "Ungoogled Arc Browser" ?

Basically, Arc Browser, but with all the spyware features removed just like for Ungoogled Chromium.

No because it is out-of-scope of the project.

And it is not possible anyway unless The Browser Company open sources all their codes.

ghost commented 2 months ago

Would you guys ever consider making an "Ungoogled Arc Browser" ? Basically, Arc Browser, but with all the spyware features removed just like for Ungoogled Chromium.

No because it is out-of-scope of the project.

And it is not possible anyway unless The Browser Company open sources all their codes.

would it not be possible to decompile it?

PF4Public commented 2 months ago

would it not be possible to decompile it?

Have you attempted to do so? What are your results?

Cubik65536 commented 2 months ago

Would you guys ever consider making an "Ungoogled Arc Browser" ? Basically, Arc Browser, but with all the spyware features removed just like for Ungoogled Chromium.

No because it is out-of-scope of the project. And it is not possible anyway unless The Browser Company open sources all their codes.

would it not be possible to decompile it?

  1. Have you tried it?
  2. I doubt if this is legal.
ghost commented 2 months ago

Would you guys ever consider making an "Ungoogled Arc Browser" ? Basically, Arc Browser, but with all the spyware features removed just like for Ungoogled Chromium.

No because it is out-of-scope of the project. And it is not possible anyway unless The Browser Company open sources all their codes.

would it not be possible to decompile it?

1. Have you tried it?

2. I doubt if this is legal.

would it not be possible to decompile it?

Have you attempted to do so? What are your results?

No, I'm not a swift/C++ developer, this is why I came here to ask.

Cubik65536 commented 2 months ago

No, I'm not a swift/C++ developer, this is why I came here to ask.

Then I already told you the answer, which is no.

I am not aware of any decompiler that decompiles Swift (or even C++) built binaries straight into source. A decompiler exists, but what came out of it is usually not helpful unless lots of manual work are put into the reverse engineering work.

Again, reverse engineer a product is not in the scope of the project, even though it contains Chromium. Providing another ungoogled browser isn't. This is the first thing I told you.

I'm not a lawyer, and I don't spend my time reading laws, but I do believe reverse engineer some company's proprietary software to provide a modified version of it is not legal anywhere.

So, TL;DR: NO.