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[Q] is ungoogled-chromium completetly FLOSS?

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#1,054 opened on Jun 1, 2020

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I'd like to know if ungoogled-chromium frees Chromium from non-free software (e.g. removes unrar, widevine or other first/third party software/binary that's not under a free software license) completely, or if at least builds without it by default. As you are most likely more familiar with the Chromium source code than me, in your experience, is there too much or not really much non-free software? I need this information, because I want to start a project to free Chromium, and this project (ungoogled-chromium) looks like a good start point, at least for the means of privacy.

Would be good, imo, to put this question in the faq, if possible :)

Thanks in advance.

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Examine the build scripts and the list of removed components in ungoogled chromium's documentation to determine if all non free software is removed.
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