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.
Cromite
Official website github.com/uazo/cromite
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.
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uazo/cromite
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License
GPL-3.0
Latest release
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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.