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To have concerns based on assessments of region and government of developer is not necessarily national-phobia. Yes, it is true that some people share such opinions in an ignorant and offensive way driven by political or cultural disdain for a given country, but I don't think that pertains to the people in this conversation who seem to be assessing their security landscapes based on reasonable criteria. No one is exempt from criticisms about invasion of privacy and many of us have similar concerns about the invasion of privacy that American companies (and government) commit. The nature of exerted control and privacy invasions committed by governments is different from those committed by corporations and are therefore reasonable things to consider when assessing individual or enterprise privacy and security. This is I suppose to the point of us seeking more secure browsing options.

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Has anyone using this have been able to disable the stupid tab groups? I've checked the usual flags but can't seem to find the right one.

A quick search online only points to older Chrome/Chromium releases.

I hear you. It is incredibly annoying. Vivaldi has this under control and allows for completely personalized tab management, even with an actual tab bar as in desktop versions if one wants. Losing Bromite patches for privacy and de-Googling though. At least they have powerful ad-and-malware-blocking features with selectable lists and stay on top of Chromium versions.

At this point, all Chromium based browsers are a compromise of features. Win some, lose some.
 
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Has this fork of Chromium been abandoned? ➡ https://chromium.woolyss.com/#android

Should I move to the Uazo fork? It's a little annoying losing bookmarks and history every time we have to switch to a new browser 😕

I don't think it's been discontinued or abandoned, in fact it was using the latest patches from Uazo as they were coming out and those builds and the ones for Linux have been going on for years. One could always open an issue on Github and ask.

Sometimes it just takes a while. Vivaldi themselves just took over a month between the last two snapshot versions that they put out and they have a whole team. That was stranger.
 
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Has this fork of Chromium been abandoned? ➡ https://chromium.woolyss.com/#android

Should I move to the Uazo fork? It's a little annoying losing bookmarks and history every time we have to switch to a new browser 😕

Builds are being released again. ( I don't know if it may have to do with some new Google shenanigans, not just this build or Vivaldi, I've also noticed a delay in many other builds based on the latest versions in the past few weeks. )
 
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Hello, looking for cromite user, do you know how to connect Google account to sync all my stuff ?

Hi, did you find a way to connect them? I see on the bottom of the cromite settings "you and google" and this menu

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Hi, did you find a way to connect them? I see on the bottom of the cromite settings "you and google" and this menu

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Nope still not, I saw theses options but still dont know how to reactivate them. Last time I asked, People have told me that the whole point of Cromite is to ungooglize Chrome, so I understand that there is no way to link your Google account
 
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    I have started an open source project to support Chromium + custom patches for adblocking:

    https://www.bromite.org/

    What is Bromite?
    Bromite is Chromium plus ad blocking and privacy enhancements; it started as a port of NoChromo and nowadays adds more privacy-focused patches and is maintained against the latest stable Chromium.

    Development & donations
    Please join the development on Github for improvements.
    Donations are welcome and help supporting development and build server costs!

    Download & availability
    Bromite is available for download from the Bromite Official website, which points to the Github Releases for all the downloads, and via the official third-party F-Droid repository.

    Frequently Asked Questions
    Q. Does Bromite support Google Sync, Translate or Data saver?
    No. This is not a limitation of Bromite but of all Chromium-based projects in general, as general public is not allowed to use Google's APIs for free unless when using Chrome.

    Q. Does Bromite require root?
    No.

    Q. What is the SystemWebView?
    It is the core component of Android for all web page visualizations. For example when you access a new wifi network and need to activate it, that is using the SystemWebView. If you do not know what it is then you do not need to install it.

    How to enable DNS-over-HTTPS?
    See this wiki page.

    Q. Can you add dark mode/some cool themes?
    No.
    Bromite is about adblocking and privacy.

    For other F.A.Q.s see https://github.com/bromite/bromite/blob/master/FAQ.md

    Resources

    Social/discussion platforms

    In the news

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    NOTE: the author (@csagan5) is not posting frequently on these forums, for official information about Bromite refer to the official website and GitHub project.
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    I don't see how Bromite could violate Chrome's policies since it's based on Chromium. What about all CAF/chromium based browsers? Opera, Brave, Inox, Iridium...
    But I think you should change the logo. I created the attached logo if necessary. Released under CC0 1.0 Universal license :)

    What do you mean by "make a Br logo if you can"?

    Here are two versions in green. I guess it's better to wait for csagan5's opinion before doing anything else :)

    Thanks @OSheden for your work, I truly forgot to say that after the exchange with Bruce from Google Play Team I decided to close my account (forfeiting the 25$ of course) because basically he threatened to suspend my account if I continued asking what is in violation, rather than only the app as they had done already, preventing me from making any changes already. Threatening is generally not a good sign, regardless of what platform you are publishing on. It is not a sign of a healthy ecosystem either, and Google Play is not. They have the monopoly and act as such. This means that they are very defensive and they decide the rules, and that's it. I asked in every single email Bruce to learn what is Chromium, to no extent, but it's not his fault. They told him to keep using pre-canned answers, and that's what he does.

    I do not want people to be confused with Chrome but to understand it's a fork of Chromium even by the logo (this is very common in open source world). That is both because I believe Chromium project should not die (I hope so) and because it is generally positive for open source projects to share roots and thrive in different directions.

    For the time being I do not plan changing the logo, I personally do not care about the logo - but as per tag-line, Bromite is Chromium + adblocking and some privacy-oriented patches. It is not Chrome and I have no problem making steps to make it different, but not for the Play Store.

    My decision is not much of a ragequit but rather an acknowledgement that a) it would require a massive amount of time to abide to each and every request of the reviewers and b) I do not agree with the position of "this is violating Chrome" when 100% of the Chrome team publishes the patches for Chromium under that brand. I prefer spending that time as I have been doing to maintain Bromite.

    You are probably asking: what about F-Droid? see https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues/4

    In other news, version 63.0.3239.150 is almost finished building (~10 hours left I think) and contains some nice bugfixes.
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    66.0.3359.188 has been released.

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    68.0.3440.90 has been released.

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    65.0.3325.230 has been released.

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