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Ungoogled Chromium is a Chromium-based browser with Google services stripped out.

- Project and source: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

- Binaries: https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-bina...

Use ungoogled-chromium: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

> ... you don't need to worry that toggle will get mysteriously turn back on.

Using Firefox Developer edition and toggle(s) will get mysteriously turned back on all the time. And Mozilla is not immune to this practice at all for standard Firefox.

Use chromium-ungoogled [1] if you want chrome(ium) without Google-specific stuff.

[1] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

What's the point? It's open source. So some people naturally spend the effort to maintain something like https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

    In descending order of significance (i.e. most important objective first):

    1. ungoogled-chromium is Google Chromium, sans dependency on Google web services.
    2. ungoogled-chromium retains the default Chromium experience as closely as possible.
       Unlike other Chromium forks that have their own visions of a web browser, ungoogled-chromium is essentially a drop-in replacement for Chromium.
    3. ungoogled-chromium features tweaks to enhance privacy, control, and transparency.
       However, almost all of these features must be manually activated or enabled. For more details, see Feature Overview.

> there is a de-Googled one called Chromium

There's Chromium and there's Ungoogled Chromium[1]. If you're looking for (some) independence from Google, you want the latter. Or just avoid it altogether and use other browsers.

I wouldn't recommend Blink-based browsers (Brave, Vivaldi, Opera, etc.) You're still indirectly giving Google power over the web by using their engine.

[1] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

The Ungoogled Chromium project itself is a pretty good summary. In a nutshell, Chromium (whether signed in or not) "phones home" to Google for a number of reasons, and the official Chrome builds do it even more (though in harder to observe ways since the changes are closed source).

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

On KDE, Falkon.

On Gnome, "Web".

On macOS, Safari may not pass your "non-corporate" requirement, but it's spiritually non-corporate, and functionally "just a browser". It's also wicked fast and extremely light on your resources.

On many platforms, "ungoogled-chromium" may satisfy your needs. It's under the name "eloston-chromium" in many repos. https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

> also "ungoogled Chromium" - The process is Chrome is Googled Chromium.

You can download Chromium[0], but people tend to be referring to the project called "Ungoogled Chromium"[1] to remove any calls to Google domains, eg. safe browsing, which are still present in Chromium.

0: https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium/

1: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium