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40hz:
Once again Download Squad finds something useful:

From Downloadsquad: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/09/24/iron-chrome-for-privacy-fanatics/

Iron: Chrome for privacy fanatics

Posted Sep 24th 2008 1:00PM by Christina Warren

If you want to use Google Chrome but are concerned or have questions about Google's policies for collecting usage data, you might want to give Iron a try.

Iron, developed by German software company SRWare is Chrome stripped of all the user ID information that gave the German government cause for concern.

I don't speak German, but the guys at the Incomplete-News Project have helpfully published an English translation. According to them, Iron is essentially the Chromium source code, with the following modifications:

    * No unique user-ID
    * No user-specific information is sent to Google
    * No alternative error messages
    * Crash information is not sent to Google
    * No Google updater


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sri:
Check out UnChrome linked at http://www.gchromewiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page#Tools.

icekin:
As an alternative, use Chromium. Latest version found at the top. Doesn't even require installation, can just unzip and run. All of chrome's features present (including gears), except auto-update.

wreckedcarzz:
As an alternative, use Chromium. Latest version found at the top. Doesn't even require installation, can just unzip and run. All of chrome's features present (including gears), except auto-update.
-icekin (October 08, 2008, 07:51 PM)
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Fixed link: http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/?O=D

Ehtyar:
Thanks guys, been looking for something like this.

Ehtyar.

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