On 2022-08-30 at 20:18, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > On 31/8/22 7:36 am, Jon Leonard wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 04:27:09PM -0700, L L wrote: >> >>> I'm on bullseye, and installed chromium from the bullseye repos. >>> In Chromium I get the message that the browser is "managed by >>> your organization." I didn't do any special setup for work or >>> school. Is the management part of the Debian packaging, or is >>> something sketch going on? >> >> There's malware that does that. The feature is usually for things >> like company-wide security policy, but if you're not expecting it, >> it's almost certainly malware. It's presumably trying to spy on >> you or serve you ads or some such.-- > > The managed message is not malware. It's just part of the standard > configuration in Debian. > > If it annoys you, remove the files in /etc/opt/chrome/policies I have no such directory (not even /etc/opt/chrome, or for that matter /etc/opt/chromium), but I do have this message. I do have /etc/chromium/, which has a policies/ subdirectory; the only thing in that latter is a recommended/ subdirectory, and the only thing in that is a file named duckduckgo.json. dlocate tells me that that file was installed by the chromium package itself. /usr/share/doc/chromium/changelog.Debian.gz tells me that this was put in place in version 104.0.5112.101-1 (the latest as of this writing), in response to bug #956012. As it happens, you can look up information about the policies in effect (though not, at least as far as I can tell at a glance, the paths to the files they're coming from) by entering 'chrome://policy' into the Chrome address bar. On my system, the page that comes up from that shows a variety of search-related configuration settings, several of which reference DuckDuckGo. So that's almost certainly coming from that recommended-policy file, although the details of "recommended" vs. "enabled" and what you're supposed to do if you want to disable it (and avoid having it come back on a future package update) I'm not sure. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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