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		sjwright on Sept 26, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell i... 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.

vezycash on Sept 26, 2018 [–]

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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