Stop google Chrome cron job?

[Knute Johnson]

On 5/9/23 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?

The Brave browser does the same thing.  I think it uses a chromium 
back-end.  Here is my /etc/cron.daily/brave-browser file:

https://knutejohnson.com/test/brave-browser.html

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    39 May  3 03:22 brave-browser -> 
/opt/brave.com/brave/cron/brave-browser


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Knute Johnson