A TUI tool for automatically configuring and applying policies to Chromium-based browsers, ensuring a cleaner browsing experience.
Instantly disable telemetry, promotional clutter, and browser bloat while maintaining full usability. Includes a built-in editor for fine-tuning policies to your needs.
Warning
The old policy generation script is available in legacy branch, but it will not be maintained.
- Disable telemetry and usage reporting
- Disable GenAI features
- Disable bloatware, promotional features and suggested content
- Disable vendor specific Sign-In and Sync
- Tighten Site-Shield settings (disable location detection, notifications, etc)
- Install content-blocking extensions:
- Brave
- uBlock Origin
- I still don't care about cookies
- Chrome
- uBlock Origin Lite
- I still don't care about cookies
- Edge (from edge addons store)
- uBlock Origin
- I still don't care about cookies
- Blank Tab
- Brave
| Browser | Windows | macOS | Linux |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Chrome | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Microsoft Edge | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Brave | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
This tool does not require installation, and can be run in a single command.
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL "https://debloat.yashg.dev/install.sh")"powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://debloat.yashg.dev/install.ps1 | iex"Or download the binary from the latest GitHub release and run it directly.
On first launch, recommended profiles are pre-selected by default.
Press a to apply these profiles directly for the current selected browser.
Warning
On Windows, the policy will be applied automatically.
On Linux, the policy will be applied automatically, but app needs to run as sudo.
On macOS, you will be prompted to install the profiles through System Settings.
Chrome debloat will automatically open System preferences
Double click to install the profile. This will show the review dialog. Press Install.
After entering your credentials, the policies will take effect.
You can press numbers 1, 2, 3 to select the browser from the tab for which policies will be applied.
NOTE: You can apply policies for browsers that are not available on the system.
The recommended preset provides a solid baseline, but you can customize it to fit your needs. The configuration acts like an editor, allowing you to add, edit, or remove individual policies or entire policy groups.
Press h l or ← → to jump policy groups.
Press j k or ↑ ↓ to navigate through the list.
Press space to toggle a policy item. Press it on a policy group to toggle all items within it.
Press d or backspace on a policy item or a group to mark them for deletion.
Press enter to edit the value of a policy item
Or you can use filters to quickly narrow down that policy item.
Press / to show the filter input and type your query.
Press Tab to leave the input, and browse the results.
Note: Filter applies to current browser settings, but you can switch to other browsers and the ilte
If you've made changes that you don't want, you press z undo last edit, r to redo and R (Shift+r) to revert all changes.
You can export the policies (including the edits) on your system without applying.
Press S (Shift+s) to save the policy
If you want to delete all policies for the selected browser, press U (Shift+u).
Warning
This is destructive. So make sure you save a copy of your policies.