# Bromite - Take back your browser
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Bromite is [Chromium](https://www.chromium.org/Home) plus some patches for ad blocking and enhanced privacy.
Bromite is only available for Android v4.1 and above.
See [open issues](https://github.com/bromite/bromite/issues) for the development in progress.
# Donate
Please donate to support development of Bromite and the costs for the build system.
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# F.A.Q.
## Does Google Sync/Translate/Data saver work?
No.
This is not a limitation of Bromite but of all Chromium-based projects in general, as general public is not allowed to use Google's APIs for free unless when using Chrome.
## What is the SystemWebView?
It is the core component of Android for all web page visualizations. For example when you access a new wifi network and need to activate it, that is using the SystemWebView. If you do not know what it is then you do not need to install it.
## Does Bromite require root?
No.
## Can you add dark mode/some cool themes?
No.
Bromite is about adblocking and privacy.
## Can you add HTTPS everywhere?
No.
We cannot add add-ons to Bromite (merely some features) and anyway HTTPS everywhere in particular is too invasive to be easily maintained across new releases.
# Features
* adblocking (currently baked-in, no configuration options available)
* remove click-tracking and AMP from Google search results
* allow youtube/vimeo videos to play in background
* [StartPage](https://startpage.com/) search engine
* [DuckDuckGo](https://duckduckgo.com/) search engine
* [Qwant](https://www.qwant.com/) search engine
* Google search engines English-only with reduced tracking
* privacy enhancement patches from Inox patchset, ungoogled-chromium and Iridium projects
* removed webRTC and applied other anti-fingerprinting mitigations
* all codecs included (proprietary, open H.264 etc.)
* built with official optimizations
# Releases
A build server goes through the very lengthy build operation and then new versions are available in this project as [releases](https://github.com/bromite/bromite/releases).
Each tag corresponds to a Chromium release tag.
# How to build
The [bromite main repository](https://github.com/bromite/bromite) contains tags for each corresponding Chromium release (see https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git).
Please refer to [official Chromium build documentation](https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code) to get started on how to build Chromium; if you can build Chromium for Android, you can build Bromite.
# Credits
* [Chromium project](https://www.chromium.org/Home) and developers
* [ungoogled-chromium](https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium) for some patches
* [Iridium project](https://github.com/iridium-browser) for some patches (taken from above ungoogled-chromium)
* [Inox patchset](https://github.com/gcarq/inox-patchset) for some patches (taken from above ungoogled-chromium)
* nochromo for the original adblock patch
* AdBlock Plus, uBlock, EasyList and EasyPrivacy for the compilation of original adblock patch
# License
The patches published as part of the Bromite project are released under [GNU GPL v3](./LICENSE).
[version-image]: https://img.shields.io/github/release/bromite/bromite.svg?style=flat-square
[version-url]: https://github.com/bromite/bromite/releases/latest
[license-image]: https://img.shields.io/github/license/bromite/bromite.svg
[license-url]: https://github.com/bromite/bromite/blob/master/LICENSE