Is it ungoogled? Telemetry, home calls exist? #119
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@Flashwalker It has patches from ungoogles chromium, as well as patches that remove google telemetry and "phoning home" as much as possible, but I did not want to sacrifice usability, so google search, google sync, and the webstore are still enabled, and when/if you use those services, then thorium will talk to google servers in the same fashion as any chromium based browser that has these integrations. |
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Well... At very first launch it continuously trying to connect to Google (despite none url was opened)
so it's not ungoogled enough. |
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Addition to Alex's answer: Thorium still retains some of Google's services, so it is normal to connect to Google's servers. In addition, we just selected some patches from ungoogled-chromium, and you can find the specific patch list in the readme. |
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@Flashwalker @gz83 Those connections you are seeing are to preload the NTP, and to check if the user has enabled sync. |
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After turning off everything that can be turned off in settings about account, sync, dns, "security", etcetera |
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@Alex313031, @Flashwalker , @gz83 ,whats it trying to connect to in this last screenshot? |
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Google's update service, account service and optimization guide |
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@gz83 , can we have toggle buttons to turn all these off? To prevent tracking,etc? I think thats important. And what do u mean by "optimization guide", why is google contacting that optimization guide (server?)? |
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@Intellectual234 Explanation from chromium: `The optimization guide component contains code for processing hints and machine learning models received from the remote Chrome Optimization Guide Service. Optimization Guide is a layered component (https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/design-documents/layered-components-design) to enable it to be easily used on all platforms. Directory structure: core/: Shared code that does not depend on src/content/ Contains the core functionalities to fetch and persist data received from the remote Chrome Optimization Guide Service, including but not limited to page load metadata and machine learning models. content/: Driver for the shared code based on the content layer |
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Is it debloated from google telemetry, home calls, etc?
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