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Recently I installed Chromium as a Google-free alternative to Chrome.

Now every time I run Chromium it shows me a yellow banner telling me that I need to set some Google API keys. I realize that I won't be able to use any Google features without these keys, but since I want a Google-free experience I don't mind that at all.

So my question is, is there a way that I can remove this annoying banner?

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Reset to default
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Assuming Windows:

Open cmd or powershell with the the same user/permissions you want to use chrome with (e.g. you shouldn't launch as admin if you are running on your default user).

Then enter these three lines:

setx GOOGLE_API_KEY "no"
setx GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID "no"
setx GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET "no"

Restart Chrome and the banner should be gone.

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For linux you can add into ~/.bashrc

 export GOOGLE_API_KEY="no"
 export GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID="no"
 export GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET="no"
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