# Ungoogled Chromium

32 Hacker News commenters recommended Ungoogled Chromium and 7 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 11 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** A Chromium build with Google's services removed, recommended for privacy and for keeping uBlock Origin working. Some call it only a temporary fix.

## Why people recommend it

- Keeps uBlock Origin working (6 comments): "The only way to more or less reliably use uBO is by installing Ungoogled Chromium" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096272)) "Ungoogled chromium still supports MV2, and uBlock origin extension works fine." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47217256)) "works perfectly fine with "extensions that can do real ad blocking"" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46292945))
- Removes Google tracking and services (3 comments): "Ungoogled Chromium doesn't include any tracking by Google" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176583)) "If you want a clean chrome, use ungoogled-chromium." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46916362)) "it's Chrome without the Google crap" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48494801))
- Clean, compatible browser with useful features (2 comments): "just give you a clean and compatible browser without any frills" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309506)) "a set of great (and per fork different yet handy) features" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46317701))
- Stable, with useful memory saver (2 comments): "I was pleasantly surprised at the tab unloading settings under "memory saver" in ungoogled-chromium." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48130011)) "so far it’s been very stable" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220847))

## What people warn about

- Heavy memory use and crashes (2 comments): "even on 32 GB of RAM, having another chromium process running meant that all my apps were getting killed left right and centre" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46307019)) "I tried using Degoogled Chromium but it kept crashing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530948))
- Some uBlock Origin versions unsupported (2 comments): "that doesnt get your ublock orign after this" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558451)) "ungoogled-chromium simply doesn't support it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515217))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Firefox](https://hackerapproved.com/p/firefox.md): 1572 recommend
- [Brave](https://hackerapproved.com/p/brave-browser.md): 397 recommend
- [Safari](https://hackerapproved.com/p/safari.md): 307 recommend
- [Orion Browser by Kagi](https://hackerapproved.com/p/orion-browser.md): 206 recommend
- [LibreWolf](https://hackerapproved.com/p/librewolf.md): 113 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Ungoogled Chromium", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ungoogled-chromium/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).