[5][6][7] It achieves this with a series of patches applied to the Chromium codebase during the compilation process.

The result is functionally similar to regular Chromium.

[8][9] Some features of regular Chromium do not work the same on ungoogled-chromium.

[11] The ungoogled-chromium project was founded by a hobbyist with the user name Eloston in 2015.

[14] Starting in 2019, Eloston greatly reduced his involvement in the project, and other developers have continued to maintain the patches.