Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome
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Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome
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Re: Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome
#2This smells like a bug.
Has he tried reporting it to http://crbug.com?
Re: Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome
#3The author says google is pushing out new versions of the browser automatically now. I was pretty sure I didn't enable the automatic updating feature but when I checked "About Chrome", I was informed that the browser had been updated. Seems to be no way to disable this either. Am I missing something?
Re: Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome
#4The author says google is pushing out new versions of the browser automatically now. I was pretty sure I didn't enable the automatic updating feature but when I checked "About Chrome", I was informed that the browser had been updated. Seems to be no way to disable this either. Am I missing something?
Yes, that is a feature that Google has hardcoded into Chrome. You CANNOT disable auto-updates or even make it so that you are asked for confirmation.
Re: Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome
#5The author says google is pushing out new versions of the browser automatically now. I was pretty sure I didn't enable the automatic updating feature but when I checked "About Chrome", I was informed that the browser had been updated. Seems to be no way to disable this either. Am I missing something?
Yes, that is a feature that Google has hardcoded into Chrome. You CANNOT disable auto-updates or even make it so that you are asked for confirmation.
Fortunately, the auto-update feature doesn't work on my Linux machines.
Re: Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome
#6The author says google is pushing out new versions of the browser automatically now. I was pretty sure I didn't enable the automatic updating feature but when I checked "About Chrome", I was informed that the browser had been updated. Seems to be no way to disable this either. Am I missing something?
If you switch to linux it won't auto-update.
Re: Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome
#7The author says google is pushing out new versions of the browser automatically now. I was pretty sure I didn't enable the automatic updating feature but when I checked "About Chrome", I was informed that the browser had been updated. Seems to be no way to disable this either. Am I missing something?
Yes, that is a feature that Google has hardcoded into Chrome. You CANNOT disable auto-updates or even make it so that you are asked for confirmation.
Of course you can (disclaimer edition note: but it's not necessarily for the faint of heart, and isn't officially supported. On their updater and update policy, Google manages to be worse than Apple on Windows, which is already pretty fucking bad).
1. On Windows and OSX (at least), the actual updating is performed by a single service running in the background for all Google applications (the Google Updater). This service is installed and/or activated by all Google applications, every time you install them (or run them, in OSX, not sure for Windows). I'm sure you can find how to do the same in Windows but my know-how is not good enough, but in OSX you can disable GUS forever by uninstalling it, emptying its directory and then setting it write-only. This way, it's not possible for GUS to be reinstalled.
2. A good enough outbound firewall (I'm partial towards Little Snitch on OSX) will allow you to block connections to the update server, and make GUS unable to query it, and therefore to update Chrome without your consent.
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#8Title here and there are a bit misleading. My hope is Lauren has simply missed the cookie icon, in his location bar.
Running 7.0.536.2 (dev), in the cookie settings, I can set Chrome to "Block sites from setting any data." Now, upon browsing to a site attempting to set, in the URL (location) bar is a cookie with an "X" overlaid -- similar in style to the padlock with an "X" when an HTTPS URI is using an unsigned SSL cert. Clicking on the cookie presents me with the list of "cookies and other site data." Each can be selected and "Allowed" or "Allowed for session only."
The claim that one needs to allow "willy-nilly" or only having the option of "manually entering cookie exceptions into tables," these are just hand-waving. I'm not sure what more is needed; I certainly don't want popups for every cookie without my taking action.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, that is a feature that Google has hardcoded into Chrome. You CANNOT disable auto-updates or even make it so that you are asked for confirmation.
Of course you can (disclaimer edition note: but it's not necessarily for the faint of heart, and isn't officially supported. On their updater and update policy, Google manages to be worse than Apple on Windows, which is already pretty fucking bad). 1. On Windows and OSX (at least), the actual updating is performed by a single service running in the background for all Google applications (the Google Updater). This ser…
On Windows, Autoruns from SysInternals (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.asp...) works fairly well for finding out about these things that happen automatically, and disabling them, as easy as unchecking a checkbox. There's at two categories relevant to googleupdate: CurrentVersion\Run, and Task Scheduler.
Re: Google Removes Cookie Control from Chrome
#10Title here and there are a bit misleading. My hope is Lauren has simply missed the cookie icon, in his location bar. Running 7.0.536.2 (dev), in the cookie settings, I can set Chrome to "Block sites from setting any data." Now, upon browsing to a site attempting to set, in the URL (location) bar is a cookie with an "X" overlaid -- similar in style to the padlock with an "X" when an HTTPS URI is using an unsigned SSL…
What about third party cookie control which is important?
I barely use chrome but I know firefox has a toggle for this.