Chromium-browser-privacy (rpmfusion) gone from Fedora 35?

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After upgrading to fc35 chromium-browser-privacy from the rpmfusion repo doesn’t work anymore. It still was visible in dnfdragora as a fc34 package but after removing it from there to attempt a reinstall it was no longer available in dnfdragora. The rpmfusion repos free and nonfree are still activated, but no chromium-browser-privacy available in fc35. Rpmfusion says it should be, but it is not:
https://admin.rpmfusion.org/pkgdb/package/free/chromium-browser-privacy/
After searching Eleston Github found this:

and enabled the OBS (Fedora 34) repo. Now it is back, but no longer under the name Chromium CBP but as “ungoogled-chromium”.
What happened to chromium-browser-privacy? Why is the package gone in Fedora 35?

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chromium-browser-privacy appears to be abandoned:
6007 – chromium-browser-privacy-91.0.4472.77-1 is available

It seems to be maintained by the same developers as chromium-freeworld.
Probably there’s not enough resources/maintainers to keep updating both packages.

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There is a lot of privacy protecting browsers: Best browsers for your privacy in 2023 | Proton

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I had fairly good luck with the flatpak of this.

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Done, it works. Starting browser from terminal:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flatpak

$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

$ flatpak install com.github.Eloston.UngoogledChromium

$ flatpak run com.github.Eloston.UngoogledChromium
Gtk-Message: 10:38:02.035: Failed to load module “xapp-gtk3-module”
Gtk-Message: 10:38:02.349: Failed to load module “xapp-gtk3-module”
libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/intel-vaapi-driver/i965_drv_video.so init failed
[33:33:1124/103803.530646:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(384)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[2:27:1124/103804.573121:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_metrics.cc(226)] crbug.com/1216328: Checking Bluetooth availability started. Please report if there is no report that this ends.
[2:27:1124/103804.573137:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_metrics.cc(229)] crbug.com/1216328: Checking Bluetooth availability ended.
[2:27:1124/103804.573141:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_metrics.cc(232)] crbug.com/1216328: Checking default browser status started. Please report if there is no report that this ends.
[2:27:1124/103804.576041:ERROR:chrome_browser_main_extra_parts_metrics.cc(236)] crbug.com/1216328: Checking default browser status ended.
[2:16:1124/103909.323343:ERROR:ev_root_ca_metadata.cc(841)] Failed to register OID: 0