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Andy Burns wrote:

Andy Burnelli wrote:

Here's what I found in the search results above...
109.0.5414.75 (but only for other platforms, and not for Android)
<https://www.techspot.com/downloads/7181-ungoogled-chromium.html>
99.0.4844.51-1

That's about right

<https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-android/releases>

Seems like wchen kept up the updates for a couple of years, then they
stopped nearly a year ago, that's a problem with what are effectively
one-man projects.

It isn't even easy to find windows builds of chromium (other than the
red-hot bleeding edge) without getting diverted back to canary/beta googlified builds ... SRWare still builds Iron

Hi Andy,

Thanks for bringing up the fact that the Windows builds are kept up to date
for all the chromium-based privacy ungoogling (such as Ungoogled Chromium
and SRWare Iron), both of which I often use on Windows (never Chrome).

As you know, I'm always trying to teach everyone to be able to do what I
can do, and as you're well aware, I then _love_ when people like you who
know far more than I do (Paul too, and others) teach me more than I knew before. It's a win:win scenario for everyone who wants to be powerful.

To that end, I ran some research in the interim between these posts, and I
am changing my recommendation for Android only (not for Windows!) to ditch Ungoogled Chromium in favor of Bromite which is apparently better
maintained (based on what I found out below that I list to help others).

Subsequent searching so that everyone benefits from what Andy and I work on
for your combined benefit, shows recent Chromium versions are located here.
<https://www.chromium.org/Home/>

Specifically, you can find a recent Chromium build here apparently.
<https://www.bromite.org/chromium>

For example, the ARM65 Chromium APK there is version 108.0.5359.156,
which you can keep autoupdated if you set up F-Droid as they explain here:
<https://www.bromite.org/fdroid>

In addition, you can get an Android Bromite APK which is, apparently,
that much more recent version of Chromium than Ungoogled Chromium was.

Here is how to update the Android F-Droid Chromium repositories:
1. Start F-Droid on Android
2. Go to Settings > Repositories & select the (+) sign icon
3. Paste in the ARM64 Address: https://fdroid.bromite.org/fdroid/repo
4. Optionally paste the ARM64 Fingerprint of the signing key:
E1EE5CD076D7B0DC84CB2B45FB78B86DF2EB39A3B6C56BA3DC292A5E0C3B9504
5. Press the "Add" button (and make sure the update slider is on)

While you're adding both Chromium & Bromite, may as well add UC too. <https://uc.droidware.info/fdroid.html>

1. Start F-Droid on Android
2. Go to Settings > Repositories & select the (+) sign icon
3. Paste in the ARM64 Address: https://www.droidware.info/arm64/fdroid/repo
4. Optionally paste the ARM64 Fingerprint of the signing key:
2144449AB1DD270EC31B6087409B5D0EA39A75A9F290DA62AC1B238A0EAAF851
5. Press the "Add" button (and make sure the update slider is on)

In (nascent) summary...

Given the desktop Ungoogled Chromium is apparently updated more frequently
than the Android Ungoogled Chromium is, and then adding the fact that the Android Bromite project is similar to the Ungoogled Chromium project
where the Android Bromite APK is updated seemingly more frequently,
(at version 108.0.5359.156), Bromite seems to be the "safer" bet.

At least for those (like Andy) who want the latest Chromium bugfixes.

Andy - would you concur with my newly burgeoning assessment that we should perhaps now recommend Bromite for Android owners who want "chrome with
privacy" but who also want the latest version of "chrome with bugfixes"?

[By way of startk contrast, Windows owners would likely want to keep using Ungoogled Chromium or Iron (instead of Bromite) both of which appear to be updated almost as frequently as the Chromium they're all built upon.]
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Posted out of the goodness of my heart to disseminate useful information
which, in this case, is to find the latest bugfixes of ungoogled chrome.

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