ungoogled-chromium

ungoogled-chromium

[Marco van Hulten]

Hello—

I installed ungoogled-chromium.  When it starts and I browse to the
main Jitsi instance [1], it wants to install the extension for Google
Calendar and Office 365 integration.  I don't know if those are
non-free softwares, but they at least provide non-free web services.

I think this suggestion should not happen.

—Marco

[1]: https://meet.jit.si/

Re: ungoogled-chromium suggests extension

[Marco van Hulten]

Je 22 Mar 13:02 skribis Marco:
> Hello—
> 
> I installed ungoogled-chromium.  When it starts and I browse to the
> main Jitsi instance [1], it wants to install the extension for Google
> Calendar and Office 365 integration.  I don't know if those are
> non-free softwares, but they at least provide non-free web services.
> 
> I think this suggestion should not happen.

I am using Chromium 80.0 on Guix System:

$ file $(which chromium)
/home/marco/.guix-profile/bin/chromium: symbolic link to /gnu/store/z3r5sf0q0jmb2yhxqpag3snlhvnbsanf-ungoogled-chromium-80.0.3987.132-0.7e68f18/bin/chromium

I think this should not be considered a bug when meet.jit.si is
suggesting to install this extension.  It happens when I go there, not
when I go to slashdot.org, for instance.  It would be weird if
meet.jit.si is suggesting this extension.

Any ideas?

—Marco

[1]: https://meet.jit.si/

Re: ungoogled-chromium

[Marius Bakke]

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Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org> writes:

> I installed ungoogled-chromium.  When it starts and I browse to the
> main Jitsi instance [1], it wants to install the extension for Google
> Calendar and Office 365 integration.  I don't know if those are
> non-free softwares, but they at least provide non-free web services.

Are you suggesting that ungoogled-chromium inserts the ad[0] into the
meet.jit.si web page?  I have never seen that banner before, and can not
find any references to meet.jit.si in the ungoogled-chromium source code.

[0] Search for <div class="chrome-extension-banner"> in the HTML.

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Re: ungoogled-chromium

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Marco,

> I installed ungoogled-chromium.  When it starts and I browse to the
> main Jitsi instance [1], it wants to install the extension for Google
> Calendar and Office 365 integration.  I don't know if those are
> non-free softwares, but they at least provide non-free web services.

It seems to me that these suggestions are triggered by the website.
We don’t attempt to filter website contents.

-- 
Ricardo

Re: ungoogled-chromium

[Marco van Hulten]

Ricardo—

Je 22 Mar 13:37 skribis Ricardo:
> > I installed ungoogled-chromium.  When it starts and I browse to the
> > main Jitsi instance [1], it wants to install the extension for Google
> > Calendar and Office 365 integration.  I don't know if those are
> > non-free softwares, but they at least provide non-free web services.  
> 
> It seems to me that these suggestions are triggered by the website.
> We don’t attempt to filter website contents.

Thanks for this info, also Marius.  Then there is no issue with the
ungoogled-chromium package.

I might look into what meet.jit.si is doing.

—Marco

Re: ungoogled-chromium

[Vagrant Cascadian]

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On 2020-03-22, Marco van Hulten wrote:
> Je 22 Mar 13:37 skribis Ricardo:
>> > I installed ungoogled-chromium.  When it starts and I browse to the
>> > main Jitsi instance [1], it wants to install the extension for Google
>> > Calendar and Office 365 integration.  I don't know if those are
>> > non-free softwares, but they at least provide non-free web services.  

FWIW, I found that popup surprising too...


> I might look into what meet.jit.si is doing.

I'm curious if you can get audio or microphone access using
ungoogled-chromium on meet.jit.si... video worked fine for me, but
neither audio output nor microphone input worked.  Are there optional
plugins needed to make audio work with ungoogled-chromium?

On the same system, audio output worked fine with icecat, though
meet.jit.si wasn't supported at all on icecat.


live well,
  vagrant

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Re: ungoogled-chromium

[Marius Bakke]

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Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> writes:

> I'm curious if you can get audio or microphone access using
> ungoogled-chromium on meet.jit.si... video worked fine for me, but
> neither audio output nor microphone input worked.  Are there optional
> plugins needed to make audio work with ungoogled-chromium?

Early revisions of ungoogled-chromium had a bug where websites were
prevented from accessing your microphone.

Check if ~/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences has an entry like

  "audio_capture_enabled": false

Removing or inverting that setting should fix the problem in that case.

HTH,
Marius

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Re: ungoogled-chromium

[Marco van Hulten]

Vagrant—

Je 22 Mar 06:14 skribis Vagrant:
> I'm curious if you can get audio or microphone access using
> ungoogled-chromium on meet.jit.si... video worked fine for me, but
> neither audio output nor microphone input worked.  Are there optional
> plugins needed to make audio work with ungoogled-chromium?

No, it worked out-of-the-box for me.  I am using a USB-connected
microphone (C-Media Blue Snowball).

I don't have an audio_capture_enabled line in Chromium's Preferences.

> On the same system, audio output worked fine with icecat, though
> meet.jit.si wasn't supported at all on icecat.

Same experience for me.  I vaguely remember a message on this list (or
guix-devel) about media input issues with Icecat, possibly related to
WebRTC.

—Marco