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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by vetinari on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:54PM (#17973210)
The Google Update can be disabled (per product) via Group Policy.

If you want to manage Chrome updates on your own, use the msi installer.

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by opencl on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @07:10PM (#17974357)
Is there a way to disable it on versions of Windows that lack the Local Group Policy Editor?
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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by red_admiral on Thursday September 13, 2018 @12:30PM (#17979888)
Group policies are just a UI for certain registry keys I think? I imagine you could do this in regedit, but I can't tell you the exact key name.
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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by vetinari on Thursday September 13, 2018 @07:12AM (#17977673)
No idea, sorry. There are ways to install gpedit on Windows Home, but the articles I've seen include some shady download.
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