I'm excited to release Just the Browser!
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I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.
@corbin love the idea, will have a look to see anything I should add to my own Firefox config!
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@corbin I sent this to a colleague and they came back to me saying:
it's just group policy, we could push this to the whole company!
@kajer That is what they were made for! Leaving telemetry/logging enabled is usually a good idea for real enterprise environments though
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@corbin My policies file is a bit more opinionated than yours, but is another option: https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/05/18/enterprise-policies-for-firefox-customization-a-beginners-guide.html
I love that you figured out how to remove Perplexity -- I hadn't even tried. Thanks for showing us the way!
@yoasif Glad it helped! And yeah, my original Edge config that spawned this idea was much longer and more tailored to what I use specifically.
Browsers have also removed a few features lately that would have otherwise gone in these lists, like Pocket in FF, Privacy Sandbox in Chrome, the sidebar minigames in Edge, etc.
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I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.
@corbin or GNOME Web, ut does not have any of that and constantly gets better.
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I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.
@corbin does it work with Vanadium on Graphene OS?
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I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.
@corbin I tried this on Edge on macOS and for the first time using Edge was actually a pleasant experience. Amazing. Thank you.
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I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.
@corbin Thank you for putting in all this effort!
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I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.
I will share this on the Stop Gen AI website tomorrow.
Please check our group out.
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I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.
@corbin
thanks. installed here on firefox and floorp on my pi5's, my main systems. how about android? and chromium?like this allot and share' it on all platforms I’ve been.
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I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.
Super interesting project!
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I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.
Now, for even better privacy and security, we should have a Linux edition.
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@corbin does it work with Vanadium on Graphene OS?
@tadbithuman No Android support yet: https://github.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/issues/4
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@corbin
thanks. installed here on firefox and floorp on my pi5's, my main systems. how about android? and chromium?like this allot and share' it on all platforms I’ve been.
@thomas Android support and more Linux browsers would be cool, I've made issues for them: https://github.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/issues
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I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.
@corbin Great project. Thanks. A great improvement might be to have the implementation in a Ubuntu/Debian package and to activate the Configuration by installing this package.
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I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.
@corbin nice work
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Now, for even better privacy and security, we should have a Linux edition.
@Adam_Howard @corbin It's already there. I just ran it on Mint 22.2. It's just a shell script.
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I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.
@corbin I got a chance to look at this and wow, it's really just that simple? I'm going to throw a copy of the Firefox .json file, text instructions, and link for updates in my "list of things to do after a reinstall to make the OS and apps behave" workflow
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I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.
@corbin Will try later. Crazy that we have to start doing this...
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I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, sponsored content, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.
This project includes configuration files (group policies), a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Everything is open-source on GitHub.
Great easy way to get rid of AI in my firefox instances, thank you!
1 criticsim about the homepage:
It is not transparent, that the browser download links redirect to google/mozilla/microsoft servers with their original versions. Some naive users may think, it would be sufficient to (re-)download one of the browsers without copying the script.
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@corbin does it work with Vanadium on Graphene OS?
