0:00 all right so I'm still on a quest for
0:01 the perfect web browser but for the time
0:04 being I think I'm switching over to
0:05 ungoogled chromium and in this video I'm
0:08 going to be going over why I'm switching
0:09 to this and also how to set it up to get
0:12 the best experience
0:14 and so let's just go over what ungoogled
0:16 chromium is so as you may already know
0:19 chromium is a free and open source web
0:21 browser that is used as a base for all
0:25 kinds of different web browsers like
0:26 Google Chrome Microsoft Edge and all of
0:28 the others pretty much and so chromium
0:31 is a pretty similar experience to Google
0:33 Chrome without all the Google features
0:35 and branding
0:37 and out of the box chromium is already
0:39 pretty good for privacy and security but
0:42 the problem is it isn't perfect that's
0:44 because chromium is developed primarily
0:46 by Google so of course they're going to
0:49 put a lot of features and a lot of
0:51 callbacks to Google services and Google
0:53 servers there's a lot of things that
0:56 just call back to Google in some way or
0:58 another and so on Google Chromium is
1:00 exactly what it sounds like it's just
1:02 chromium without all the Google web
1:03 service dependency and so you can feel
1:06 safe in that nothing's getting reported
1:08 back to Google because less of my
1:10 private information I can send to a
1:12 giant mega Corporation the better but
1:14 you might be wondering what's the
1:15 difference between this and say some
1:17 other privacy focused chromium-based
1:19 browsers for instance Brave is probably
1:21 the most popular one right now it is
1:23 another privacy Focus browser but the
1:25 reason I'm switching to ungoogled
1:27 chromium is just because this browser is
1:30 going to just be as close to the
1:32 original chromium experience as possible
1:34 so with brave sure you get some privacy
1:37 acting features but you also get Braves
1:40 whole crypto gimmick which I have never
1:42 cared about you have a whole bunch of
1:45 features that you probably won't ever
1:46 use like it has a built-in torn client I
1:49 don't know why it has this but it does
1:50 and so I've been using brain for a while
1:52 but I just didn't need all of the
1:54 features that I had so that's why I
1:56 decided to take a look at Uncle chromium
1:58 right here now do keep in mind that this
2:00 is going to take a little bit of work to
2:02 set up so if you want to recommend a
2:04 browser to one of your Normie friends I
2:06 would still recommend Brave or Firefox
2:09 because those are much easier to get set
2:11 up because angled chromium in their
2:14 quest to remove all of the Google web
2:16 services uh they end up breaking a few
2:19 features and so by default you can't
2:22 actually install extensions from the
2:24 Chrome web store because that actually
2:26 calls back to Google and a few other
2:28 features are just missing so you will
2:31 have to do a bit of work setting this up
2:33 but first things first let's just go
2:35 over how to install this so we are on on
2:37 Google Chromium GitHub page I will leave
2:39 a link to this in the description let's
2:41 go down to downloads and if you're on
2:43 Linux you would go here and click on
2:46 whatever distribution you're using Arch
2:48 Debbie and Fedora they're all pretty
2:50 similar but let's go to this Arch Linux
2:52 page right here
2:53 and all that you basically want to do is
2:56 you want to add the open build service
2:58 repository and you would do it by
3:01 pasting in this command into your
3:03 terminal this will just add an
3:05 additional repository and only then can
3:08 you
3:09 install it with your usual package
3:10 manager and so you would just run these
3:13 commands in your terminal and that will
3:15 all set up correctly and I would really
3:17 recommend adding this repository just so
3:19 you don't have to build it yourself
3:20 because you can build it yourself at
3:22 least on Arch Linux it is in the Aur but
3:26 building it yourself does take a long
3:28 time it'll take hours and hours to build
3:31 it yourself and it will basically turn
3:33 your computer into a toaster while it is
3:35 building so I wouldn't really recommend
3:38 that so I'll go the path of adding this
3:40 repository and of course it's very
3:42 similar instructions for Debian or
3:45 Fedora you would just click those what
3:48 you can also do is you can download a
3:50 binary which is the application that is
3:53 already built you can download them from
3:55 here I wouldn't necessarily recommend
3:57 these because these are just built by
4:00 some random users on the internet that
4:02 wanted to build them and distribute them
4:04 here out of the goodness of their heart
4:05 but you're not 100 sure that they didn't
4:09 do anything with these binaries so I
4:12 wouldn't necessarily recommend these you
4:14 can use these and you probably wouldn't
4:15 have any issues but just do know that
4:18 there is a non-zero chance that they
4:19 have been tampered with but let's say
4:21 that you have everything installed
4:23 correctly so you're going to get
4:24 something like this out of the box but
4:26 there are a few settings and things that
4:28 you should change just because like I
4:30 said out of the box on Google Chromium
4:32 does break a few things so for example
4:34 you cannot install things from the
4:36 Chrome extension store so what on Google
4:38 Chromium wants you to do is it wants you
4:40 to manually download and install all of
4:43 these add-ons
4:44 but there is a much easier way to do
4:46 this and that is with the chromium Web
4:48 Store extension so this is basically a
4:51 must-have if you want to have on Google
4:52 Chromium just because without this you
4:55 won't have automatic updates or anything
4:57 like that so I really recommend this so
5:00 this extension will basically just
5:01 restore all of the functionality around
5:03 extensions but without relying on Google
5:06 services to do it
5:08 so first things first you will probably
5:10 want to go into Chrome slash Flags right
5:14 here that's because you probably want to
5:16 set this setting right here handling of
5:18 extension mime type requests so normally
5:21 if you download an extension it will
5:22 just download it to your PC but we
5:25 wanted to open a little pop-up here that
5:27 says do you want to install this
5:28 application so you can do that by going
5:30 to Chrome flags and searching for this
5:33 handling of mime type requests
5:36 and setting this as always prompt for
5:38 install
5:40 save that and now we can go back to here
5:43 and we're going to install this by going
5:46 to releases
5:47 and clicking on a CRX right here and it
5:50 should pop up in a dialog here asking
5:52 you to add this let's add this extension
5:55 and it has now been added let's just pin
5:58 this right here because whenever it has
6:01 a new update for one of these extensions
6:03 then it will have a little notification
6:05 right here prompting you to update it
6:07 and of course if you go back to the
6:09 Chrome web store then there will be a
6:11 box right here where you can now add and
6:14 remove from chromium so that makes
6:16 handling extensions a lot easier another
6:18 setting you might want to change out of
6:20 the box you can find in settings
6:22 and by default on Google Chromium will
6:25 delete all of your cookies after you
6:27 close the browser which you may not want
6:30 that could be a little bit annoying it
6:32 can be useful for some websites but you
6:33 probably don't want to have to re-log in
6:35 every time you open up your browser so
6:38 you would just uncheck this option right
6:40 here
6:41 where it says clear cookies and site
6:42 data when you close all windows let's
6:44 uncheck that and one more thing that is
6:46 missing is wide Vine CDM if you don't
6:49 know what this is then it just allows
6:51 you to access DRM protected content in
6:53 your browser like for instance you're
6:55 not going to be watching Netflix out of
6:57 the box on this because it is DRM
6:59 protected so you would want to install
7:01 this called widevine CDM
7:04 in order to say watch Netflix and do
7:07 other things that might be DRM protected
7:08 and so if you're on a WM based
7:10 distribution then you would just follow
7:11 these instructions right here I'll leave
7:14 a link to this as well and of course it
7:16 has instructions for Mac OS and windows
7:18 for Arch Linux you can get it in the Aur
7:21 it's going to be called chromium Dash
7:24 wide Vine
7:25 and you want to install this from the
7:26 Aur and then you may need to CH mod this
7:29 file as well if it's still not working
7:32 for you I had to do this as well but
7:34 once you're done with that then you
7:35 should be able to watch Netflix do
7:37 whatever you want with this and finally
7:39 let's talk about dark mode so by default
7:42 is probably not going to have dark mode
7:43 enabled if you already have dark mode
7:46 out of the box then you can probably
7:47 skip this section but for me personally
7:49 I'm using a window manager so what I had
7:52 to do is I had to pass in a few Flags in
7:54 order for this to work so first I made a
7:57 file in my DOT local share slash
7:59 applications folder called ungoogled
8:01 chromium.desktop
8:03 you want to open this up and I just
8:05 created this desktop entry right here
8:08 and this is saying whenever we start up
8:10 chromium I want to pass in these
8:12 additional Flags I want to pass in dash
8:14 dash Force Dark mode that is going to
8:16 turn on the dark mode for all of this up
8:17 here and then also dash dash enable
8:20 features web UI dark mode that is going
8:24 to make the settings pages and
8:26 everything else
8:27 dark mode as well and there's just a few
8:30 more other random flags that you can add
8:32 I had to disable top sites which are the
8:35 shortcut links whenever you open up a
8:37 new tab I didn't want those so that's
8:39 what I added and now whenever you start
8:41 ungoogled chromium from your application
8:43 launcher
8:45 then it will open with dark mode and all
8:47 those features enabled so I do recommend
8:49 that if you want to get dark mode and
8:51 there's a few other additional features
8:53 that are not in the settings menu
8:55 again you would check Flags right here
8:58 and then search for some specific
9:00 options if you want them for example by
9:03 default it's going to show you a bunch
9:04 of useless buttons up here that you
9:07 probably will never use so for example
9:09 this user button this right panel button
9:12 that I really didn't want so you would
9:15 just add these into Flags so if you want
9:18 to turn the Avatar off we would click
9:19 never
9:21 want to turn the side panel off we would
9:23 do this relaunch it and so some of these
9:26 options are unique to ungoogled chromium
9:28 that's why you need to come into Chrome
9:30 slash flags and add them here but if
9:32 you're looking for some additional
9:33 option that you can't find in the
9:35 settings menu then you may be able to
9:36 find it in here but that's about it when
9:39 it comes to setting up ungoogled
9:40 chromium now you should have a browser
9:42 that functions pretty much exactly how
9:44 you would want it to and it's going to
9:46 protect your privacy it's going to
9:47 protect your security and once you get
9:49 this basic setup out of the way then it
9:51 is actually pretty easy to use
9:53 and one more resource is this FAQ page
9:56 right here if you have any additional
9:58 questions or any other quirks that you
10:01 want to figure out then I would check
10:03 this page and I'll leave a link to this
10:05 in the description but maybe your
10:07 microphone isn't working maybe your
10:08 spell checker isn't working maybe you
10:10 want to Chromecast and you can enable or
10:12 fix all of these options if you wish but
10:15 I'll leave that up to you that is enough
10:16 for this video and so now you can have
10:18 all the benefits of chromium without all
10:20 of the creepy tracking from Google so
10:23 this looks interesting to you give
10:24 ungoogled chromium a try and I think
10:26 you'll enjoy it as much as I do
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