Chromium installing automaticly when updating

Software PureOS
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I’ve just installed PureOS and updated it, it automaticly installed chromium…???

What is the deal with that?
Does anyone know??

And correct me if I am wrong, but is chromium (in the pureos repos) the ungoogled version, or the version directly from google?

Does PureOS still comply with the fsf libre/free standards?

Just a little worried, and baffled…

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http://write.flossmanuals.net/chromium/about-chromium/

When Google released the Chrome web browser in 2008, it also released its source code to the public through the Chromium project. The code was issued under the BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) license, which meant that the source code for Chromium may be freely used, copied, modified, and distributed for use in other programs.

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How about chromium being automaticly installed, when updating?

The command I used apt update && apt upgrade -y on a fresh install…

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If Chromium doesn’t bother you, just ignore it. Sometimes it is useful. If it bothers you, delete it:
apt remove chromium

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@alex.beakes you can remove it by doing from a terminal:

sudo apt remove chromium

Also can you tell me the output of the command:

apt search ublock-origin

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also can you tell the output of:

cat /etc/lsb-release

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@joao.azevedo Here is your output:

root@alex:/home/alex# apt search ublock-origin
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
chromium-ublock-origin/amber 1.22.2+dfsg-1~deb10u1 all
  general-purpose lightweight ads, malware, trackers blocker (Chromium)

ublock-origin-doc/amber 1.30.0+dfsg-1~deb10u1 all
  lightweight and efficient ads, malware, trackers blocker (docs)

webext-ublock-origin/amber,now 1.30.0+dfsg-1~deb10u1 all [installed,automatic]
  transitional package

webext-ublock-origin-chromium/amber,now 1.30.0+dfsg-1~deb10u1 all [installed,automatic]
  lightweight and efficient ads, malware, trackers blocker (Chromium)

webext-ublock-origin-firefox/amber,now 1.30.0+dfsg-1~deb10u1 all [installed,automatic]
  lightweight and efficient ads, malware, trackers blocker (Firefox)

xul-ext-ublock-origin/amber 1.22.2+dfsg-1~deb10u1 all
  general-purpose lightweight ads, malware, trackers blocker

And the second one:

root@alex:/home/alex# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=PureOS
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9
DISTRIB_CODENAME=amber
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="PureOS 9"
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I know, but I think users should decide what additional software they should install.
There shouldn’t be automatic install of additional software on update…that’s kinda sneaky

Just keep this as a side project))))

I’m just interested, why this happened.

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My deGoogled Pixel 4a with Graphene had Google as the default search engine! I promptly changed it.
I use the sudo apt purge (whatever) to get rid of all the code.

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Of course. This was not intentional and we are still troubleshooting what happened. There is a suspicion about the root cause of this, but it needs confirmation.

The suspicion is that it might be related to the package webext-ublock-origin, that is now in recent updates a metapackage for two other packages: webext-ublock-origin-firefox and webext-ublock-chromium.

But this still needs confirmation.

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