I needed to reinstall Firefox on this computer, so I started up Chrome to download the latest version and it blocked the download as unsafe! I had to manually tell it to download anyway.

Fuck Chrome. I’m glad I only used it to download one file and went back to Firefox.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        162·
        9 months ago

        No, although I did use it for work, which is the only reason Chrome is on the computer. But the sysadmin didn’t touch it.

        • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
          293·
          9 months ago

          They don’t need to touch it. If you login using your company’s google account, they automatically has access via their MDM console.

    • maychance@infosec.pubEnglish
      16·
      9 months ago

      I just tried to reproduce this and couldn’t either. I’m also using a mac. Had to download a fresh copy of chrome since I didn’t already have it on my machine and it let me download 121.0 without hiccup. I’m curious what blocked it on yours.

        • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          9 months ago

          Your safe browsing was disabled, as another commenter said. Either you had it disabled manually, or it was momentarily down and couldn’t fetch the list. Either way, it marks all downloads as unsafe just to be sure in that case.

      • driveway@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        I don’t use Chrome but maybe that Google Malware scan option is not set to the strictest?

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        94·
        9 months ago

        I used it for work before I quit my job because the backend required Chrome. Believe it or not, I didn’t bother to close out all the work tabs when I quit the job.