ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

Ungoogled Chromium is a version of the Chrome browser with all of Google's tracking and data collection removed. If you use Google Chrome but feel uncomfortable knowing it sends information back to Google, about your browsing habits, searches, and activity, this project offers the same browser engine without those connections. Chrome and Chromium (the open-source version Google releases publicly) still have dozens of built-in services that quietly call home to Google servers in the background: things like Google Safe Browsing, Google's update checker, usage statistics, and various other telemetry systems. Ungoogled Chromium strips all of those out at the source code level, not just by turning off settings, but by actually removing the code that makes those connections possible. The result is a browser that looks and works like Chrome, same speed, same extension support, same rendering engine, but doesn't send any data to Google unless you explicitly navigate to Google's websites yourself. For a privacy-conscious founder or vibe coder, this is essentially a drop-in replacement for Chrome. On Mac, you can install it easily through Homebrew (a popular Mac package manager) with one command. It's also available on Windows and Linux through various channels. The trade-off is that Google's Safe Browsing (the feature that warns you about dangerous websites) is disabled by default, since that feature requires sending URL data to Google's servers. You'd need to configure alternative protection if that matters to you. Updates also don't happen automatically, so you'd need to manually keep it current.