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Confused by that as well - what version of chrome can be installed without admin?

• EvanAnderson 1y ago
  It cannot. There are malicious third parties who have made distributions of Chromium that are fully functional browsers, installing in the user's AppData folder w/o Administrator rights, that have additional "functionality" like exfiltrating browsing history or displaying extra t This is really what any Electron-based app is. It's just Chromium running out of the AppData folder. There's a whole ecosystem of "shadow IT" software that installs out of the AppData folder, meant to end-run IT and central control, that functions great w/o Administrator rights.
  • jlarocco 1y ago
    I'm not doubting that there are malicious third parties distributing them, but Google themselves delivers Chromium that way: https://download-chromium.appspot.com/ https://download-chromium.appspot.com/ It's linked from the main chromium site: https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium/ https://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/download-chromium/
    • 3eb7988a1663 1y ago
      I thought that was a pretty common pattern now for a variety of software tools. Was pretty sure that Chrome + Firefox did not need administrator privileges to be available to a user.
  • red_admiral 1y ago
    This one is usually ok? https://chromium.woolyss.com/ https://chromium.woolyss.com/ It's sort of like official unofficial download place.