Stop google Chrome cron job?

[user1996]

Uninstall Chrome and use a different browser. Then see if the Cron job 
comes back.

This is why people try to stick to open source software solutions and 
avoid using big tech.

If you want, send me the Cron script or post it here. Let's see what 
it's doing.

/Linux user since 1996/

On 2023-05-09 12:54, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> I installed Google Chrome on my Ubuntu-22.04 system from Google's 
> PPA.  I discovered that it created a cron.daily job that runs a script 
> it owns.  (/etc/cron.daily now contains a symlink to 
> /opt/google/chrome/cron/google-chrome.)   Since I find this kind of 
> behind-ones-back thing unacceptable (a euphemism), I removed the link 
> from /etc/daily.cron/.  The next day it was back.  Does anyone know 
> with what or how Google is replacing the cron job?  Is my PC now Pwned 
> by Google?
>
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