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Un-de- the English languange from Latin influence. Ungoogle yourself!
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English is comes from the proto-Germanic family of languages. It was later when the Normans invaded the British Isles did the language begin to see Latin & French influences (which is one of the sources for English having terrible spelling rules). βde-β is of Latin etymology. βun-β is Germanic in origin. In many cases βun-β prefixes can be substituted. See: ungoogled-chromium.
so wait why the preference for de