I would like to install Ungoogled Chromium, but I can only find ungoogled Chromium as an older version on Arch AUR and a “Ungoogled Chromium XDG” as a newer build. Can someone please explain me what’s the difference between Ungoogled Chromium and Ungoogled Chromium XDG?
If you’re not keen on web DRM, might be worth considering Firefox. The less chromium users, the easier it is to stop companies implementing this.
Couldn’t you just install the flatpak? That might be way simpler
Isnt XDG a base directory spec? I could be wrong.
AFAIK chromium is degoogled, what Google Chrome uses is a Googled version of chromium.
Yes, that’s my understanding of xdg. But I have no idea what this means for Ungoogled Chromium package. Base Chromium itself isn’t degoogled. It has most of the Google service’s active and enabled. Only a minor subset, like bookmark sync is disabled (but technically available). With Ungoogled Chromium, most (not all) Google dependencies are patched and inactive. At least this was the case as I last checked it. Since I prefer a mostly Google free environment, I would like to use Ungoogled Chromium for testing and a patched Firefox browser for standard web things.
You can try Thorium Browser, it’s similar to Ungoogled Chromium, but it also has many performance improvements and other things.