European alternatives to Google Chrome
The world's most-used browser, and Google's most effective data-collection surface. Built on open-source Chromium but shipped by an advertising company, it defaults to signing you into the Google ecosystem.
Company information about Google Chrome
- Company
- Google LLC
- Parent company
- Alphabet Inc.
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, United States
- Founded
- 2008
- Data jurisdiction
- United States
- Ownership
- Publicly traded
- GDPR
- No
- Open source
- Partial
- Infrastructure
- Own infrastructure
Why people switch away from Google Chrome
European alternatives to Google Chrome
Feature-rich browser from former Opera developers, built in Norway. No telemetry, highly customisable, and privacy-respecting.
Waterfox is a UK-built browser based on Firefox's engine, with telemetry off by default and private DNS to hide your browsing from your provider. It became independent again in 2023 after a period of US ownership.
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People also replace
Firefox 
Microsoft Edge 
Safari 
Ditching more than Google Chrome?
Our Degoogle guide maps every Google service to a European alternative.
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Other Alphabet Inc. products with European alternatives
Start somewhere.
Switching everything overnight is not realistic. Start where it matters most: your email, your cloud storage, your business tools. Replace one thing at a time.
The European Alternative already exists.
Pick Europe.
Why avoid United States-owned services?
CLOUD Act
Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.
FISA Section 702
Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.
GDPR vs US law conflict
EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.