Chrome "forced" upgrades
John R. Sowden
jsowden at americansentry.net
Mon Apr 10 02:53:24 UTC 2017
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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