[Privacy] Make this ungoogled

[Gahwa-Gahwa]

Hi,

Love the browser and my only grip is that I want to it be more privacy oriented like Ungoogled Chromium.

I'm not sure if you did, but can you please remove all background requests to google & all google services.
When I open Thorium in incognito I see open connections to (172.64.147.52).

Thanks

[gz83]

A partially ungoogled patch has been included, but Google services will not be completely removed for usability reasons. In addition, completely breaking away from Google is just a false proposition for me. As long as you are connected to the Internet, your privacy may be leaked at any time.

@Gahwa-Gahwa

[Gahwa-Gahwa]

I understand your point that complete ungoogling while maintaining usability is unrealistic , and I agree to a certain extent.

However, my main concern isn't about absolute anonymity. it's about Google tracking me and associating my individual ID with my browsing behavior. Although they might identify that a browser from a certain location with a specific IP is making requests, I want to prevent personal identification and the tracking of websites I visit. I believe that such a level of privacy is achievable while still preserving usability.

[Alex313031]

@Gahwa-Gahwa Thorium has most of this disabled or turned off by default. If you want even more anonymity, make sure all the toggles on chrome://settings/syncSetup are set to disabled.

[ghjkl99]

@Alex313031 Thank you so much for making this available for Win7 too. i do have chrome://settings/syncSetup options to disabled, safebrowsing disabled and incognito mode, but am seeing DNS lookups for: update.googleapis.com, safebrowsing.googleapis.com, chromewebstore.googleapis.com, edgedl.me.gvt1.com, clients2.googleusercontent.com without actually visiting those sites. Please could you clarify ? Would like to not have these network connections too. Thanks.