I am the main developer behind Bromite; I started this open source project about 8 months ago and I would like today to announce it publicly on Reddit to gather user feedback and reply to any question.

What is Bromite?

Bromite is Chromium plus ad blocking and privacy enhancements; take back your browser!

Bromite is only available for Android v4.1 and above.

F.A.Q.s are available here: https://github.com/bromite/bromite#faq

Goals

Bromite aims at providing a no-clutter browsing experience without privacy-invasive features and with the addition of a fast ad-blocking engine.

Minimal UI changes are applied to help curbing the idea of “browser as an advertisement platform”.

Features

• baked-in adblock engine with filters from EasyList, EasyPrivacy and others
• remove click-tracking and AMP from search results
• DNS-over-HTTPS support via Google/CloudFlare servers
• allow playing videos in background
• StartPage, DuckDuckGo and Qwant search engines
• privacy enhancement patches from Iridium, Inox patchset, Brave and ungoogled-chromium projects
• bookmarks import/export
• webRTC, canvas, audio and other anti-fingerprinting mitigations
• all codecs included (proprietary, open H.264 etc.)
• built with official speed optimizations

You can inspect all functionality/privacy changes by reading the patches: https://github.com/bromite/bromite/tree/master/patches

Releases

All built versions are available as Github releases; the official website points to those releases and - when browsing via Android - it will automatically select the one apt for your device.

Each tag corresponds to a Chromium Stable release tag.

Bromite is currently built for ARM, ARM64 and x86 and for the Android SDKs versions 16 and 21.

Additionally, SystemWebView and the vanilla Chromium builds are provided.

It is also available via the official third-party F-Droid repository.

Credits

• Chromium project and developers
• Iridium project for some patches
• ungoogled-chromium for some patches
• Inox patchset for some patches (via ungoogled-chromium)
• Brave Browser for some patches
• nochromo for the original adblock patch
• AdBlock Plus, uBlock, Peter Lowe's adservers list, EasyList and EasyPrivacy for the filters included

Donations

Please donate to support development of Bromite and the costs for the build system.

Donate via PayPal: 3 EUR or free amount

BTC donations address: bc1qmpyuqsvs3tz3uaysplmwjr33gg4rzu6cqweaq834ehc25vduxppqkrszel

ETH donations address: 0xf47ff39223d828f99fec5ab53bd068c5c0522042

License

The patches published as part of the Bromite project are released under GNU GPL v3.