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[Linux] Google Chrome installing plugins without permission

nickdalzell

nickdalzell

Extreme Android User
Installed Chrome to my Kubuntu 12.10 system on my laptop. when i opened it today, was browsing this forum and suddenly a tab appeared telling me 'Adblock Plus has been installed'

First of all, i did NOT choose to install Adblock Plus. Secondly, i am not the kind of person who appreciates things installing on my devices without my explicit permission. Now, i have taken great adjustment periods to get used to Android having control over all my apps and which run and which do not (which i still personally desire control over and am a bit uncomfortable with auto-memory management even today) but when apps themselves install things behind my back then tell me i feel violated. is there a setting somewhere to disable this? Chrome has never done this kind of thing on Windows, Android or iOS
 
Have you got browser syncing turned on via Google? That syncs plugins on your various devices that are using Chrome. Maybe why the ad-blocker appeared to install itself on this system, you've got it on another system with Chrome?
 
all my Android devices run Chrome and i do like having my bookmarks and recent pages synced, but i do not recall ever having installed this extension at all on any device so i doubt that has anything to do with it? if i ever installed Adblock at all it was on an ancient Windows 98 computer running Mozilla Firefox 2.x
 
Hmmm... my guess was going to be the sync that google is offering... but if that's not it I'm not sure.

I'd uninstall it and see if that change keeps. Maybe check a few of your other devices to see if one of those devices also has the change.
 
as i said i have never installed Adblock Plus and it's not in chrome on any of my other devices. i turned off extension sync and removed it fwiw, but we'll see if any more sneak in.
 
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