Here's the deal -- I just didn't want my Chrome installation to update, for certain reasons that are irrelevant here:
- I'd disabled Google Update in the Group Policy (yes, I know Chrome ignores it)
- I'd disabled the Google Update services
- I'd uninstalled Google Update (not that Google was honest enough to make this work, but still)
- I'd even removed the Google Update program files in
C:\Program Filesmanually
...and this was working for many weeks... until yesterday!
Until yesterday, Chrome kept nagging me with its usual Chrome-is-out-of-date and Chrome-is-broken-please-reinstall popups. And if I tried to manually update Chrome, it failed -- it gave error 0x80040154. So I knew I was doing something right (or wrong, depending on your point of view).
But today morning I woke up only to find that Chrome had magically updated itself, which drove me very angry and confused at Google. So in one sentence, here's my question:
How did Google force-push an update to my Chrome despite my actions?
Some follow-up questions that are on my mind right now:
Is this in the Chromium source code somewhere, or is it a Google Chrome-specific feature?
Is this a well-known capability? Has it ever been publicized before? Has Google acknowledged it?
From my perspective it seems quite dishonest to "backdoor" this so slyly, and I didn't know they would.
Heck, is someone at Google monitoring my installation or something?
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