diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/upstream-info.json b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/upstream-info.json
index d35d3fa75175..37546ecc8715 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/upstream-info.json
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/upstream-info.json
@@ -31,15 +31,15 @@
     }
   },
   "dev": {
-    "version": "97.0.4692.20",
-    "sha256": "1njgfz3kz1pyyaaskqc47ldy2gzc3c9a8mjib81nalzrqbmd3372",
-    "sha256bin64": "06vsmzz8nvmx7hfqwvqfmq4h000dw22srxdrgrdfgh7mry0yvf4a",
+    "version": "98.0.4710.4",
+    "sha256": "0ay4bn9963k7bbv31wfc1iy2z6n6jjk1h2mn7m7893i81raisk8m",
+    "sha256bin64": "0n4kb6iiv9aih7yzrnr9m7znqb2p37grlj8by6gpjfikx3fxf5gg",
     "deps": {
       "gn": {
-        "version": "2021-11-03",
+        "version": "2021-11-16",
         "url": "https://gn.googlesource.com/gn",
-        "rev": "90294ccdcf9334ed25a76ac9b67689468e506342",
-        "sha256": "0n0jml8s00ayy186jzrf207hbz70pxiq426znxwxd4gjcp60scsa"
+        "rev": "4aa9bdfa05b688c58d3d7d3e496f3f18cbb3d89e",
+        "sha256": "0jwjfbxlbqxlz7wm46vyrxn3pgwyyd03as6gy5mcvvk9aialqh9f"
       }
     }
   },
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/signal-desktop/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/signal-desktop/default.nix
index c8797423bedb..14de83785434 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/signal-desktop/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/instant-messengers/signal-desktop/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 , hunspellDicts, spellcheckerLanguage ? null # E.g. "de_DE"
 # For a full list of available languages:
 # $ cat pkgs/development/libraries/hunspell/dictionaries.nix | grep "dictFileName =" | awk '{ print $3 }'
-, sqlcipher
 }:
 
 let
@@ -23,39 +22,6 @@ let
       --set HUNSPELL_DICTIONARIES "${hunspellDicts.${hunspellDict}}/share/hunspell" \
       --set LC_MESSAGES "${spellcheckerLanguage}"'');
 
-  sqlcipher-signal = sqlcipher.overrideAttrs (_: {
-    # Using the same features as the upstream signal sqlcipher build
-    # https://github.com/signalapp/better-sqlite3/blob/2fa02d2484e9f9a10df5ac7ea4617fb2dff30006/deps/defines.gypi
-    CFLAGS = [
-      "-DSQLITE_LIKE_DOESNT_MATCH_BLOBS"
-      "-DSQLITE_THREADSAFE=2"
-      "-DSQLITE_USE_URI=0"
-      "-DSQLITE_DEFAULT_MEMSTATUS=0"
-      "-DSQLITE_OMIT_DEPRECATED"
-      "-DSQLITE_OMIT_GET_TABLE"
-      "-DSQLITE_OMIT_TCL_VARIABLE"
-      "-DSQLITE_OMIT_PROGRESS_CALLBACK"
-      "-DSQLITE_OMIT_SHARED_CACHE"
-      "-DSQLITE_TRACE_SIZE_LIMIT=32"
-      "-DSQLITE_DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE=-16000"
-      "-DSQLITE_DEFAULT_FOREIGN_KEYS=1"
-      "-DSQLITE_DEFAULT_WAL_SYNCHRONOUS=1"
-      "-DSQLITE_ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA"
-      "-DSQLITE_ENABLE_UPDATE_DELETE_LIMIT"
-      "-DSQLITE_ENABLE_STAT4"
-      "-DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS5"
-      "-DSQLITE_ENABLE_JSON1"
-      "-DSQLITE_ENABLE_RTREE"
-      "-DSQLITE_INTROSPECTION_PRAGMAS"
-
-      # SQLCipher-specific options
-      "-DSQLITE_HAS_CODEC"
-      "-DSQLITE_TEMP_STORE=2"
-      "-DSQLITE_SECURE_DELETE"
-    ];
-
-    LDFLAGS = [ "-lm" ];
-  });
 in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "signal-desktop";
   version = "5.23.1"; # Please backport all updates to the stable channel.
@@ -153,7 +119,6 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   preFixup = ''
     gappsWrapperArgs+=(
       --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : "${lib.makeLibraryPath [ stdenv.cc.cc ] }"
-      --prefix LD_PRELOAD : "${sqlcipher-signal}/lib/libsqlcipher.so"
       ${customLanguageWrapperArgs}
     )