google chrome wants me to update to new version

J. Paul Bissonnette jpaulb at eastlink.ca
Sun Jan 9 14:11:12 UTC 2022


OT
Isn't chrome known to send your browser history back to Google? Or is
that fake news?


On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 11:55:56 +0100
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 at 10:32, robert rottermann <robert at redcor.ch>
> wrote:
> >
> > Is there no "ubuntu official" way to install the chrome browser
> > using apt get?
> 
> No. Chrome is proprietary freeware. Ubuntu can't include or supply it;
> it is not FOSS.
> 
> The official way is to get it from Google:
> 
> www.google.com/chrome
> 
> When you install the official Google .deb package, it adds Google
> repositories into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
> and from then onwards you will get updates when you update the OS.
> 





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