Stop google Chrome cron job?

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On May 10, 2023 5:09:20 PM EDT, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>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.
>
>..
>Bret Busby
>Armadale
>West Australia
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Stuart,

Which one of the several available VPN extensions do you use? I have a similar need and am leery of these extensions.