Stop google Chrome cron job?

[Stuart McGraw]

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?
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> 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.