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Comment by saagarjha | Hacker News Reader

Why is there a policy to require “Chrome” and not a policy to require another browser, hmm?

Google offers "Managed Chrome" as a service. What would you like them to do, offer "Managed Firefox"? Should AWS offer "Managed GCP"?

I don’t think Google should also offer a product that detects “managed Chrome”

I don't think Google should also be allowed to remain in charge of Chrome at all but here we are.

Uh, why? Context Aware Access is a policy attestation service. Managed Chrome is exactly the sort of thing you'd have policies for.

Organization admins may roll out hardened Firefox settings via their MDM solution, and then based on that want to restrict usage to Firefox.

Google offering "Managed Chrome" is probably the root issue.

Call me old school, but wedging an already dominant browser to be the only full fledge option in GSuite using companies reeks anti-competition.

You don’t have to use managed chrome to use gsuite

I mean the issue here is Google using its dominant power to push for a specific browser within a security software they control.

This is a difference between America and Europe in mentality towards this.

I don’t think that’s true. They support OS verification for windows and Mac. If Firefox implemented verification (I doubt they would) and there was customer demand I think they would support it.

Microsoft has a chrome and Firefox extension for similar management lockdown

Because Google is able to configure Chrome to the admin's liking.

Yep, there are a lot of high risk settings, especially extensions

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