Chrome "forced" upgrades

[John R. Sowden]

Woops, there's more:

When I received the upgrade from Ubuntu, I clicked on Settings, then on 
Ubuntu Software and unchecked "Software restricted by copyright or legal 
issues (Mmultiverse)", but they kept a cummin.

I checked "Other Software", but the only thing there were PPAs that I 
personally added.

John

On 04/09/2017 07:28 PM, John R. Sowden wrote:
> 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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