# imputnet/helium

> Privacy-focused Chromium-based web browser with ad-blocking and no bloat, based on ungoogled-chromium. Available for macOS, Linux and Windows.

- Magnitude: 2.2 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 21,202 total · +15 stars today, ≈ 29 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: C++ · License: GPL-3.0 · Created: 2025-02-15 · Last push: 2026-10-03
- GitHub: https://github.com/imputnet/helium · Homepage: https://helium.computer · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/imputnet/helium

## Useful for

- Install a Google-telemetry-free browser for everyday surfing
- Build a custom browser build from source on macOS or Linux

## Why it’s here

- 15 stars so far today, about 29 expected by the end of the day.
- GitHub Trending C++ today: #13, +49 stars.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 608
- Issues and pull requests: 2,489
- Watchers: 62
- Average over the last week: 33 per day
- Usual pace: 35 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 2
- Latest release: 0.18.3 (2026-10-02)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-05 … 2026-10-04: 62, 52, 54, 54, 41, 49, 35, 25, 36, 37, 29, 35, 30, 32, 25, 39, 35, 28, 28, 43, 28, 31, 29, 41, 24, 29, 31, 30, 46, 15

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending C++ today: #13, +49 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-04 13:56 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.