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		TomAnthony on Sept 26, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy... The readme refers to "Google Host Detector" in the (original) Chromium source. Does anyone know the purpose of that?

CannisterFlux on Sept 26, 2016 [–]

This patch https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/re... seems to contain the details of what is removed. Most of it seems innocuous enough, except the tracking (?) headers appended on some Google sites.

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