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Chrome allows you to disable installation of extensions via Group Policy for a looong time now: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/66239/how-to-pr...

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I'm just not smart enough to figure that out. That first answer references steps that don't exist on any Chromebook I've ever seen. So I assume I have to enroll the machine in a group policy externally? I have no idea. Never been able to figure it out. I usually just end up installing an extension (oh, the irony) that blocks the extensions domain. :/

> That first answer references steps that don't exist on any Chromebook I've ever seen.

That's because Group Policies are a Windows-only thing.

So there isn't a way to disable extension installation on anything other than windows?

Chromebooks don't run Windows, so Group Policies won't work for you.

You can get the same (and more) control with an Enterprise subscription from Google which seems to cost about $50 per year, per device.

but sadly Group Policy is not available on Windows Home edition

In most cases, you can get group policies like these to work if you manually create the registry keys that GPO would create for you. It's more complicated, but it can work.

works about as well as taking a pair of scissors to your nightlamp's electrical cable to go to sleep

That's windows-only, right?

IIRC you can apply it on macOS via MDM / configuration profiles, but that's not as simple as gpedit.msc.

I've seen these restrictions enabled on macOS and ChromeOS as well, so there is a way to manage them.

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