"Just because Debian thinks that they are doing the right thing, they are in fact, controlling the user's settings through a policy It's just telling you that, as it should."
But by default isn't Google controlling the user's setting through a policy. The policy includes, among other things, the rule that Google is the default search engine. (Needless to say, that setting is a cash cow.)
And in fact, the user that manually changes the default policy herself, i.e., changes the default search engine to something other than Google, versus delegating the decision to a third party such as Debian or Google, cannot remove Google as a search engine choice! It is greyed out. Permanent. Chrome binary allows users to delete all the other choices, except Google.
Probably was not specific enough here. Chrome binary on ChromeOS. The anticompetitive, manipulative tactics are reminiscientof Microsoft's including Internet Explorer in Windows.
But by default isn't Google controlling the user's setting through a policy. The policy includes, among other things, the rule that Google is the default search engine. (Needless to say, that setting is a cash cow.)
And in fact, the user that manually changes the default policy herself, i.e., changes the default search engine to something other than Google, versus delegating the decision to a third party such as Debian or Google, cannot remove Google as a search engine choice! It is greyed out. Permanent. Chrome binary allows users to delete all the other choices, except Google.