I am using PureOS Plasma Version can anyone let me know that is using chromium because it is open source and available in software center as open source while chrome is closed source.
So using Chromium which is an open source is safe at all ?
Thank you
Thanks for your reply
But ungoogled chrome is not available in software center
while chromium is available there.
Basically Chromium is just the good stuff, with all of Googles proprietary spyware stripped off and it has been packaged by Debian devs, and Debian frowns on spyware. I think that it is relatively safe to use, but I would be careful what extensions you install and of course change the default search engine to DuckDuckGo or something similar and if you use any of the Google services like gmail or YouTube, change your preferences at https://myactivity.google.com to avoid the data collection.
I’m not so sure.
See: https://fosspost.org/ungoogled-chromium-privacy-chrome/
and: https://www.ghacks.net/2016/10/05/ungoogled-chromium-removes-google-traces-from-chromium/
One way to know is to have Pi-Hole running and see what happens in the background when using Chromium.
I installed Chromium from the Linux Mint software manager, opened it, did some brief browsing, changed some settings, including disallowing all cookies and turning off “Safe Browsing”…i.e. “Unsafe/non-private Browsing”…then closed Chromium.
My network DNS resolver, controlled by Pi-Hole, is Quad9.
In the Pi-Hole dashboard, I started blacklisting Google connections as they popped up, causing them to make further connection attempts.
clients2.google[.]com
redirector.gvt1[.]com
accounts.google[.]com
r2—sn-o097znss.gvt1[.]com
www.linuxmint[.]com THE DEFAULT HOMEPAGE IN LINUX MINT
clients2.googleusercontent[.]com
www.googletagmanager[.]com
content-autofill.googleapis[.]com
content-autofill.googleapis[.]com
content-autofill.googleapis[.]com
ff.search.yahoo[.]com THE DEFAULT SEARCH ENGINE IN LINUX MINT
content-autofill.googleapis[.]com
startpage[.]com NAVIGATED TO STARTPAGE[.]com
content-autofill.googleapis[.]com
www.startpage[.]com SEARCHED FOR WIKIPEDIA
content-autofill.googleapis[.]com
content-autofill.googleapis[.]com
content-autofill.googleapis[.]com
www.gstatic[.]com
update.googleapis[.]com
update.googleapis[.]com
content-autofill.googleapis[.]com
update.googleapis[.]com
update.googleapis[.]com
update.googleapis[.]com
en.wikipedia[.]org NAVIGATED TO WIKIPEDIA
upload.wikimedia[.]org
login.wikimedia[.]org
meta.wikimedia[.]org
connectivity-check.ubuntu[.]com USUAL UBUNTU/MINT PROCESS
connectivity-check.ubuntu[.]com
content-autofill.googleapis[.]com OPENED CHROMIUM SETTINGS & STARTED CHANGING SETTINGS
safebrowsing.googleapis[.]com
translate.googleapis[.]com
translate.googleapis[.]com
translate.googleapis[.]com
translate.googleapis[.]com
translate.googleapis[.]com
translate.googleapis[.]com
translate.googleapis[.]com
content-autofill.googleapis[.]com
translate.googleapis[.]com
www.gstatic[.]com
connectivity-check.ubuntu[.]com
connectivity-check.ubuntu[.]com
connectivity-check.ubuntu[.]com
ff.search.yahoo[.]com SEARCHED FOR “NEWS” IN URL BAR
yssads.ddc[.]com
search.yahoo[.]com
s.yimg[.]com
content-autofill.googleapis[.]com
images.search.yahoo[.]com
news.search.yahoo[.]com
r.search.yahoo[.]com
shopping.search.yahoo[.]com
video.search.yahoo[.]com
geo.yahoo[.]com
c.bing[.]com
translate.googleapis[.]com
ac.duckduckgo[.]com RETURNED TO SETTINGS & CHANGED SEARCH ENGINE
connectivity-check.ubuntu[.]com
links.duckduckgo[.]com SEARCHED FOR "NEWS"
content-autofill.googleapis[.]com
external-content.duckduckgo[.]com
improving.duckduckgo[.]com
apnews[.]com NAVIGATED TO AP NEWS PAGE
storage.googleapis[.]com
www.googletagmanager[.]com
acdn.adnxs[.]com
sb.scorecardresearch[.]com
www.google-analytics[.]com
cdn.taboola[.]com
cdn.krxd[.]net
ak.sail-horizon[.]com
c2.taboola[.]com
code.jquery[.]com
s.ntv[.]io
securepubads.g.doubleclick[.]net
storage.googleapis[.]com
storage.googleapis[.]com
afs-prod.appspot[.]com
storage.googleapis[.]com
js-agent.newrelic[.]com
content-autofill.googleapis[.]com
privacyportal.onetrust[.]com CLOSED CHROMIUM
Then I purged Chromium…and needed a shower!
P.S. I don’t know if the version of Chromium packaged in PureOS is different from the one in Linux Mint, but someone can certainly test it the way I did, if they want.
yes as I researched the reason behind saving activity to show perfect results according to search history they collect keywords for data use while they do not collect your passwords, personal information or other info so obvious google collect search keywords it is not unsecure at all
So Last chromium seems secure and perfect thanks all of you…