Software updater snuck in a package that is unwanted

[Tom H]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:09 PM, John R. Sowden
<jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>
> I have had a similar issue with Chrome, the browser written by a
> company who collects personal information. This 'open source' program
> has part that is 'not open source'. I cannot keep it off my computer.
> Whenever I accept updates from Ubuntu (16.04), there is lots of
> 'chrome' afterwards.

Please bottom-post.

Chrome isn't distributed by Ubuntu. It can only be installed from
Google itself. So, if you have Chrome installed, then you must've
selected specifically.

Unless you're confusing Chrome and Chromium.