UnChrome Your Browser
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Google Chrome has certainly wowed more people than I can count. Yet despite this, there remains a constant privacy concern with the browser. Yeah, I know. We should not worry so much about this sort of thing if we have nothing to hide, right? Wrong. No one wants a browser with that kind of power.
Thankfully there are ways to take the teeth out of the browser should you wish to. Here are two of the most common ways.
Iron: Based on Chrome, but lacking the tracking features. It’s an interesting idea, however being the development project is not in English, this can be a real barrier.
UnChrome: A smarter solution for those of us not fluent in other languages. The idea behind this is simple enough - take an existing Chrome installation and “fix it” with null values as to no longer be able to identify you individually.
Is this enough to get you to switch to Chrome? Hit the comments, share your thoughts on making such a switch.
3 Comments
Randall
September 26th, 2008
at 10:20am
I strongly advise against using Chrome as a browser and Google as a search engine. Don’t even bother to try to un-chrome it. Just stay away, period. I recommend the http://ixquick.com search engine, and set your browser to use it as the default search engine. The search results rival google in quality, and no user data is retained.*
*see the ixquick privacy policy for details.
PS: You may also encrypt your connection to ixquick. Just use https://ixquick.com
paintballguy113
September 26th, 2008
at 7:59pm
chrome for mac!
Dan Bromberg
October 6th, 2008
at 10:55pm
Randall - care to back up your comment with some reasons?