Stop google Chrome cron job?

[Bret Busby]

On 10/5/23 23:50, Stuart McGraw wrote:
> On 5/9/23 14:36, Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 10/5/23 01:54, 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?
>>
>> Why did you install Chrome, knowing that it is from the google Borg?
>>
>> I am curious.
> 
> I use Firefox for day-to-day browsing.  I used to use it to access a 
> site whose owners recently decided they do not want U.S. people to 
> access.  Chrome has a VPN extension with servers in a country from where 
> access is allowed.  So I use Chrome exclusively to access that website.  
> This was a lot simpler than trying figure out how to set up a full-blown 
> VPN configured to use VPN only for some addresses.  And in practice it 
> has worked well for me so far.
> 
> 
I use Firefox for some things, Pale Moon for other things, and SeaMonkey 
for web sites where I can get away without the malware javascript.

javascript that is not limited to jsp, as with all client side 
processing, is simply malware, stealing client computer resources. No 
justification exists, for any web application, to use client side 
processing.

I thought that the thing named tor, allows people to anonymously access 
web sites, with the anonymous component, assumable, concealing, in 
addition to the client's identity, the client's location. Of course, 
with my limited knowledge about such things (I have never used tor; I am 
simply aware of its existence, and, I could be quite wrong about its 
application), I could be wrong.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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