Chrome "forced" upgrades
John R. Sowden
jsowden at americansentry.net
Mon Apr 10 02:28:10 UTC 2017
Interesting situation:
I received an update notice from Ubuntu (v16.04) including "Extra ffmpeg
codecs for the Chromium Bro...". I declined the Chromium update, as I
have never installed Chrome or Chromium on my computer as they are both
not open source nor completely open source, and they were created by a
very large, well funded company that collects personal information and
sells it to others. Due the the security nature of mu business, I do my
best to minimize my company's exposure to privacy violating data
collectors.
Now comes the fun part. I used Synaptic Package Manager to remove
Chrome and Chromium from my computer, but Synaptic Package Manager told
me that these programs were not installed. Then I searched for the file
names with Chrome and Chromium and found many entries with those names,
including executables. Hmmmmmm.
I deleted them. Now I continue to get Updates from Ubuntu re: _only_
Chromium. I declined by unchecking the box for Chromium and executing
the program (clicking on the install button), as opposed to ignoring the
update, but it keeps coming.
I like to think that I am not a 'conspiracy' kinda guy, but ...... hows
the duck theory go?
John
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