Stop google Chrome cron job?

[Colin Law]

On Tue, 9 May 2023 at 18:56, Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at mtneva.com> wrote:
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> 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?

It appears to be well commented and does not appear to do anything
untowards.  The description at the top says

# It creates the repository configuration file for package updates, and it
# monitors that config to see if it has been disabled by the overly aggressive
# distro upgrade process (e.g.  intrepid -> jaunty). When this situation is
# detected, the respository will be re-enabled. If the respository is disabled
# for any other reason, this won't re-enable it.

In addition it tells you how to disable the operation if you want to.

Also it says that it is copyright of the Chromium authors, which I
think is the open source bit of Chrome rather than Chrome specific. No
doubt someone will correct me if I am wrong there.

Colin L.