Hi Mike, "Frightening" is my perspective on this.
When an average user sees their chromium is suddenly "managed" by their organization and they know they are not part of any organization, then their first idea will be that they have been hacked. In my case I deleted my entire chromium profile before I realized that this was the root cause. I hope you quickly rollback this change to save others this pain and then figure out a better way to roll this forward. Thanks Arthur Weinberger [email protected] On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 9:13 AM Mike Gabriel < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Andres, > > On So 21 Aug 2022 09:47:51 CEST, Andres Salomon wrote: > > > It looks like the other way to do this is through > > /etc/chromium/master_preferences, which will only take effect when > > people first install and run chromium. > > > > "search_provider_overrides": [{ > > "enabled": true, > > "encoding": "UTF-8", > > "favicon_url": "https://duckduckgo.com/favicon.ico";, > > "new_tab_url": "https://duckduckgo.com/chrome_newtab";, > > "id": 2, > > "keyword": "duckduckgo.com", > > "name": "DuckDuckGo", > > "search_url": "https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}";, > > "suggest_url": "https://duckduckgo.com/ac/?q={searchTerms}&type=list"; > > }], > > "search_provider_overrides_version": 1, > > > > > > It's not clear if that's the route we should go, but it does get rid > > of the notices about the browser being managed by an organization. 🤔 > > why is this frightening? (your mail subject). Many distributors tinker > with that master_preferences file for their likings. > > And policies/managed is definitely the wrong place for configuring the > search provider, as that means that users can't change it. > > Another option is putting the default search provider in > policies/recommended. Haven't tested it, but it should work, as well. > > See https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/135 for details / overview of > tweaking features. > > Mike > > > -- > > DAS-NETZWERKTEAM > c\o Technik- und Ökologiezentrum Eckernförde > Mike Gabriel, Marienthaler Str. 17, 24340 Eckernförde > mobile: +49 (1520) 1976 148 > landline: +49 (4351) 850 8940 > > GnuPG Fingerprint: 9BFB AEE8 6C0A A5FF BF22 0782 9AF4 6B30 2577 1B31 > mail: [email protected], http://das-netzwerkteam.de > >
