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Re:Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to de... by sjwright on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @10:36PM (#18072276)
That is a logically incoherent statement. The only mechanism Mozilla has for "installing secret extensions" is via software updates. If you turn that off, they can't install anything.
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Re:Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to de... by vezycash on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:25AM (#18076235)
At least with Firefox you can disable both individual extension updates and browser updates.

Chrome on the other hand removed that option years ago. Deleting Chrome Update's scheduled-task is my workaround.

I don't recall if extension updates can be disabled in chrome.

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