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A few days ago I saw a message in Chrome saying Managed by your organization

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Typing about:policy gives a policy name ExtensionInstallSources with no policy value.

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/1331549?p=is_chrome_managed&visit_id=636900475909824547-2816358712&rd=1

https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#ExtensionInstallSources

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Is this due to the computer being linked to Active Directory or is there something else going on? Found a lot of threads popping up about this that seem to have the same policy name ExtensionInstallSources but no real reason why.

https://www.howtogeek.com/410106/why-does-chrome-say-its-managed-by-your-organization/

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/3396218?hl=en

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  • I have a similar problem but with another policy. In my case I used to have several extensions, but the ExtensionInstallSources policy was not shown, only UserDataDir. Try deleting your userdata folder and see if the problem persists. I posted my question here superuser.com/questions/1425234/…
    – kerzek
    Apr 14, 2019 at 7:35

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On Windows you can try to disable "Managed by your organization" Chrome policies, by deleting the following registry entries (with regedit tool):

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome

If that doesn't work, try to delete these Windows directories:

%WINDIR%\System32\GroupPolicy
%WINDIR%\System32\GroupPolicyUsers

On Linux you can remove Chrome policies by deleting the following directories (as sudo):

/etc/opt/chrome/policies
/etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed
/etc/opt/chrome/policies/recommended

See more info in this thread: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/3262871

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Here is a script to delete those keys from command line

reg delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Chrome
reg delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Google\Chrome
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Google\Update
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\WOW6432Node\Google\Enrollment
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\WOW6432Node\Google\Update\ClientState\{430FD4D0-B729-4F61-AA34-91526481799D} /v CloudManagementEnrollmentToken

It will work after explorer is restarted, so either restart Windows, or kill explorer and run it again (control+shift+escape; File>"Run new task"; write explorer; check "create this task with administrative privileges")

Source (Thanks Oz Edri)

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  • Lovely. Was trying to flush out some browser hijacking issue for a relative, and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome was the one I missed. God speed and fuck malware.
    – cyqsimon
    Dec 11, 2022 at 15:04

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