Exactly. Though I wouldn't be surprised if Chrome finds a way around it. Chrome adds itself pinned to the taskbar as it installs even though Microsoft guidelines explicitly forbid it and it is purposely a little difficult to do.

Just to clarify, did you mean that pinning something to the taskbar is a little difficult, or did I misunderstand? It is very simple to pin something to the taskbar, requiring only one right click and one left click. That's why I thought maybe I misunderstood your question. I was just curious. And I completely agree it's stupid the Chrome doesn't even respect Microsoft developer guidelines. It's normal behavior for Chrome or any other Shmoogle crapware lol!

If they found a way around it, Microsoft would patch it out, certainly. But I doubt it.

Chrome was the first app I saw that found the technical way around to force taskbar pinning. Microsoft, sadly, didn't patch that out.

I think they must have recently fixed this, in Win 10 Pro at least. I installed Win 10 Pro yesterday, then Chrome and it did not automatically pin itself. Actually, if I remember correctly it even had a message at one point during the install describing how to pin it.

It is fairly easy to disable this functionality. I have seen at least one app do this already.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.winhelponline.com/blog/edge-h...

Ironic that this comment highlights another annoying Google thing. Looks like a link to Google.com but it's an amp page.

Why is it ironic that a company that does one thing that annoys you also does another thing that annoys you?