Cromite is a Chromium fork with privacy and security enhancements, built-in ad blocking and DNS-over-HTTPS support. Forked from the now-discontinued Bromite project in 2023, it is the actively maintained successor and is available for Android, Windows and Linux.
Reviewed by Gabriel Bachmann
Cromite
github.com/uazo/cromite 4.8 (8)
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Threat level
Hardened
A hardened pick. Worth the effort once you have chosen to shrink your footprint on purpose. Enough for most people. Threat levels
Our take
The actively maintained successor to the discontinued Bromite, giving Android (and now desktop) a Chromium build with ad blocking and DNS-over-HTTPS baked in. The honest context is that it is a one-fork-among-several situation and you are trusting a smaller maintainer to keep pace with Chromium’s relentless security updates, which is a real burden. A good choice for a hardened Chromium on Android specifically; on iOS or if you prefer the Gecko engine, it does not apply.
GitHub at a glance
uazo/cromite
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License
GPL-3.0
Latest release
v153.0.8010.37-11507ac1061b5ea227806f5e84db5a57df6ccf6a
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Cromite license, in plain English
GPL-3.0 Strong copyleft
Free to use and modify, but anything you distribute that is built on it must also be open under the same license.
Permits
- Commercial use
- Modification
- Distribution
- Patent use
- Private use
Requires
- Disclose source
- Same license
- State changes
- License and copyright notice
Does not provide
- Liability cover
- Warranty
Why it matters: Strong copyleft keeps every distributed version open. A vendor cannot fold this into a closed product and ship it without releasing their changes.
Plain-language summary of the project's license, not legal advice. Read the full text for the exact terms.