[bug#28004] Chromium

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Mike Gerwitz transcribed 1.6K bytes:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 19:18:39 +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> > Now, when launching the browser for the first time, it *still* connects
> > to Google services.  After a while it also does a lookup for AdWords...
> 
> Do you know what code initiates this?  Would it be easy to remove, and
> would that harm other functionality?
> 
> Saying that it only runs the first time implies to me that there's a
> flag, and that perhaps the flag can either be permanently set or the
> conditional triggering this behavior removed.
> 
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Could this be a connectivity check?

switch "--connectivity-check-url" exists:
https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
and there might be a flag here: chrome://flags/

We can also creatre our own settings file as suggested in
this thread:
https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/10331/chrome-master-preferences-file-and-suppressing-first-run-browser

Someone else suggested this file:
http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=ru#HLxzG3ShG8A/trunk/win/lib/lib_values.cc&q=/tools/pso&sa=N&cd=1&ct=rc
404 now.

Adwords query might really be rlz, but I'm just guessing for now. Post from 
2010:
https://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/in-open-for-rlz.html

> When we released a new stable version of Google Chrome last March, we tried 
> to improve the transparency and privacy options of Google Chrome. One area 
> where ve seen a lot of interest and questions is the RLZ library that is 
> built into Google Chrome. RLZ gives us the ability to accurately measure the 
> success of marketing promotions and distribution partnerships in order to 
> meet our contractual and financial obligations. It assigns non-unique, 
> non-personally identifiable promotion tracking labels to client products; 
> these labels sometimes appear in Google search queries in Google Chrome.we

This is the source code view:
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/browser/rlz/rlz.cc?view=markup
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/browser/rlz/rlz.h?view=markup


Different topic. This will help us to integrate packaged extensions once we get 
there:
https://data.gpo.zugaina.org/gentoo/www-client/chromium/files/chromium-launcher-r3.sh
and probably some more files.
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