Supermium - An up-to-date Chromium-based web browser compatible with Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 7, 8.x, and newer.
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Supermium is a drop-in replacement for Google Chrome with privacy and usability enhancements, optimized for legacy and modern Windows systems alike.
Supermium is developed by win32. It aims to restore classic Chrome features, as well as to ensure that compatibility with legacy Windows is preserved.
The future of Chromium browser customization is here.
To use the Supermium browser, you'll need:
Windows XP SP1 or later or Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later
An Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that's SSE2 capable. Hyper-threading or dual-core recommended.
A minimum of 768 MB of RAM. 2 GB or greater is recommended for a smooth browsing experience.
Main website is certified to work with a minimum of Firefox 3.5 or Internet Explorer 9
Chromium fork for Windows XP/2003 and up. Contribute to win32ss/supermium development by creating an account on GitHub.
TL;DR: Google has revealed itself as being unworthy of the vast public trust that most consumers place in them. If you’re not paying for it, you are the product. So let’s brush aside Google’s grotesque abuse of your privacy, its crazy lapses in security, and its very un-American way of conducting business. Here are 10 Apps to Ungoogle Yourself and regain control over your digital life.
First, though, some background. In a year that has been terrible for privacy and data security, Google was the sleeper agent that was unmasked as the latest in the long list of companies that people cannot trust. In September 2018, Google essentially confirmed it was working on a censored search engine with China while also dropping out of the U.S. Department of Defense’s competition for a cloud-computing project. And then only weeks later, it was found to have willfully deceived consumers about a data-exposing bug on Google+ in an effort to avoid regulation. These trends should alarm anyone that recognizes they, as users of the services that Google provides, are the product that Google is selling.
Fortunately, we have options. And many of Google’s under-the-radar competitors have created privacy-focused alternatives that, in many cases, perform better and more securely. Here are my recommendations to quickly #UngoogleYourself:
1. Search: DuckDuckGo
There are countless reasons why you shouldn’t be using Google for search, but the key reason is to stop Google from tracking your search queries and feeding you filtered results designed to make you click (and earn them revenue). Also, DuckDuckGo was built with privacy and security in mind from the ground-up, and has quickly become the third most popular search engine in the world. Help spread the word!
2. Web Browser: Mozilla Firefox
Often dubbed “the best of the rest,” Mozilla’s Firefox is on the front lines of security and privacy. Consistently a top performance browser, its out-of-the-box functionality allows you to stop trackers, block ads, and surf the web on your own terms.
3. Webmail: ProtonMail
Despite the ubiquity of social media, instant messaging, and texting services, email remains the most impactful medium for online correspondence. If you care about your digital privacy, then you’re looking for a true end-to-end encryption service, and ProtonMail is the leader of the pack. Based in Switzerland, where privacy laws are the strictest in the world, ProtonMail is a drop-in replacement for web-based email.
4. Mail Client: Mozilla Thunderbird
Every email you ever send on Google - every attachment and image -- is collected, scanned, and sold by Google to advertisers and information brokers. Break the cycle, and start using your email outside of the Google ecosystem. You can access any of your POP, IMAP, or Exchange email accounts by using a mail client, and Mozilla Thunderbird is the world-class standard bearer.
5. Drive: Mega
Secure cloud-storage offerings are a catch-22 -- either trade ease of access for a pitiful storage quota, or gain a massive storage quota that isn’t particularly secure. Enter MEGA. Mega, based in New Zealand, was founded by the notorious Kim Dotcom and offers a fully end-to-end encrypted file hosting and storage experience with a ridiculous 50 GB free tier. This is a no-brainer on every level.
6. Docs: LibreOffice
LibreOffice is free, open-source, and a globally-compatible office suite with all of your favorite Microsoft extensions using the universal OpenDocument format, and is usable on Linux, Mac OS, Windows, Android, and iOS.
7. Photos: Shoebox
For a completed automated, out-of-the-box photo storage and synchronization option, it doesn’t get much better than Shoebox. The free plan is as good as Google Photos’, but it has no advertising whatsoever. Shoebox runs on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android.
8. Video: Vimeo
Because YouTube is the largest video repository (and content library) on the planet, with more videos being created each day than can ever be consumed in a single lifetime, you might think this is an insurmountable challenge. Consider consuming YouTube videos all you want, but for hosting your own videos, Vimeo delivers a high fidelity experience without any of the intrusive ads.
9. Analytics: Matomo (formerly Piwik)
Countless webmasters have given away all of their visitor data and willingly co-opted their websites as robots and surveillance drones of the Google hive-mind, simply for a chance at gleaming some statistical abstract of what is happening beneath the surface. Matomo (f.k.a. Piwik) was built with both self-hosted and cloud editions, open source, with privacy and control in mind. With detailed funnels, behaviors, pipelines, and drill-downs, Matomo allows you to liberate your website visitor data and still benefit from all of the insights you need when creating your content.
10. Maps: OpenStreetMap
What do you get when you combine maps with a wiki? OpenStreetMap! Except, unlike Wikipedia, whose entries are cited with great suspicion, OSM data is the foundation of most modern mapping applications outside the Googlesphere - from Apple Maps to Microsoft Bing. Go right to the source, go Ad-free, and start making the maps better by making them your own.
