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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
by 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 agoI'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 agoI 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 agoThis one is usually ok? https://chromium.woolyss.com/ https://chromium.woolyss.com/ It's sort of like official unofficial download place.