Knocking on UDP, trying to make connections via QUIC, broadcasting to literally everything and everyone is the default chrome behaviour.
The question is, why (if both @win32 and Alexi are trying to implement at least something similar to Ungoogled) didn't cut it out first.
Seems like a very logical (and rather simple) first step.
Thorium surely does add tracking parameters to your search. &newwindow=1&sca_upv=1&hl=en#ip=1
What's this "ip=1", especially interesting. Looks very much like a command to record/collect your IP adddress.
Supermium testing versions on github are free to use.
https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/releases
Those that are on patreon are paid. Promised better support and updates. I don't know which exactly are used by that guy.
Disallow UDP connections. It doesn't need them. Lookups can be done via https. Precise explanations.
https://www.digitalcitizen.life/dns-over-https-secure-dns-lookups/
It's meaningless, since many people simply don't report crimes, don't want to get involved with the police, etc, and the issue is rather serous (remember the scandal you mentioned), Supermium browser, which this one is based on, is paid.
It doesn't work that way, here we respect intellectual property, even though we understand most of it belongs to another man (win32), despite all of the above, there needs to be a clear statement with Open Source code published by the author, none of that happened, so far.
Why not release a better optimised product together, then? One million releases with constant fixes only confuses people. And what does he mean by "legacy" Thorium repo? It's also confusing since Windows 7,8,8.1 are all legacy, too.
Please provide with a link where the author clearly states his softwaie is Open Source, and he (she?they?, if they work as a team) doesn't/don't mind it gets redistributed/modified.