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Techniques and tools for reducing the attack surface of web browsers by removing non-essential components.
Distinguishing note: Focuses on browser-specific security hardening, distinct from general OS security.
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Ungoogled Chromium is a desktop web browser derived from the open-source Chromium codebase, modified to remove all background communication with external services and proprietary dependencies. It functions as a privacy-focused distribution that ensures user data remains local by eliminating telemetry hooks and data collection integrations. The project distinguishes itself through extensive source-code pruning and domain-substitution patching, which replace hardcoded service URLs with non-functional placeholders to prevent unauthorized data transmission. It further hardens the browser runtime
Reduces the attack surface of a web browser by stripping out unnecessary binary components and disabling non-essential features.