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		fabianhjr on Aug 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to... > Uh, no? This is managed policy, and this is a 100% good way of letting the user know that someone else has control of their settings So Google's defaults are "un-managed" and imply no control over users' settings? Why shouldn't the Google built Chrome binaries display the same warning and a binary from a specific linux distro should?

encryptluks2 on Aug 24, 2022 [–]

Because those are the default browser settings. As explained, there is another more appropriate way to change default settings for distributions. The way Debian did it is more for enterprise management.

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