Bug#956012: Frightening!

2022-08-21 Thread Andres Salomon
I agree that it's a pretty annoying and scary message (and incorrect - "If a software program on your system has set enterprise policies that affect how Chrome works, you’ll see this message—even if it’s not fully managed by an organization."

Bug#956012: Frightening!

2022-08-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
arthurweinber...@gmail.com wrote: > >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

Bug#956012: Frightening!

2022-08-21 Thread Arthur Weinberger
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

Bug#956012: Frightening!

2022-08-21 Thread Andres Salomon
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;,

Bug#956012: Frightening!

2022-08-21 Thread Arthur Weinberger
Hi, This change caused my chromium browser to report that it's being managed by my "organization". I thought that my machine was somehow compromised. This is terrifying! I wound up deleting my entire chromium profile before I discovered that the root cause was this DuckDuckGo config change. Even