Question Browser settings are managed by your organisation

[Priscus]

Can anyone tell me how come Chrome shuts me out of access to some settings with the above message? The PC is personal: no organisation ever has been involved in either hardware or software aspects of this PC.

(I know there is a Windows help page to get rid of this, but I ask about how it has occurred in the first place.)

 

[USAFRet]

Is this a new thing, or has it always done this?

Where did your Windows license come from, and what version is it?

 

[Priscus]

Not new. Once upon a time, it did not do this, but I cannot tell you when the change came about.

OS windows 10 ver. 22H2, this update by MS from earlier version and originally supplied direct from Microsoft when offered as free upgrade from Windows 8.1, which in turn was direct from MS. (Launch offer) Hardware is self build.

EDIT:
PS when OS installed, Microsoft, as result of a court ruling, was offering a 'Browser Choice' page. The origin of my version of Chrome was the link on the said page.

This phenomena is not present when I use alternative browsers.

 

[blaze2277]

type chrome://policy and see if you have any policies enable. i have ExtensionManifestV2Availability because of unblock

 

[Priscus]

type chrome://policy and see if you have any policies enable. i have ExtensionManifestV2Availability because of unblock

Thanks. "No policies set" under all categories except, cookies blocked for URLs,& JavaScript blocked for URLs.

I am not particularly in need of correcting this, as I have a number of alternative browsers installed, and this machine is not my latest or most up to date, so as support for W10 ceases, I will remove windows and use the device purely as a Linux machine.

I am just curious, in relation to device security, how something like this can be changed without my consent.

 

[blaze2277]

it could have been set by an extension youre using

 

[Priscus]

Only extensions are 'Malwarebytes Browser Guard', and 'Privacy Badger'.

I would not expect either of those to hijack my access to settings. If anyone knows different, please tell.

 

[blaze2277]

Only extensions are 'Malwarebytes Browser Guard', and 'Privacy Badger'.

I would not expect either of those to hijack my access to settings. If anyone knows different, please tell.

which setting are you not able to access, i get the message "Your browser is managed by your organization" when i open settings but i havent found a setting i couldnt change.

 

[Priscus]

Not all settings were blocked, but alas, I do not recall now which of those were blocked. Some were: that is what drew my attention to the issue.

When I Googled how to remove, there were posts suggesting that it might be result of a PUP generating a 'Browser Hijack'! This left me wondering. Malware bytes had not indicated finding such, but had defender removed a PUP, but left behind a payload which consisted of a browser hijack?

I did get the impression that plenty of other folk had googled as to why they got the indication that browser was managed by organisation, when the device was personal, an had no attachment to an organisation.

 

[blaze2277]

Not all settings were blocked, but alas, I do not recall now which of those were blocked. Some were: that is what drew my attention to the issue.

When I Googled how to remove, there were posts suggesting that it might be result of a PUP generating a 'Browser Hijack'! This left me wondering. Malware bytes had not indicated finding such, but had defender removed a PUP, but left behind a payload which consisted of a browser hijack?

I did get the impression that plenty of other folk had googled as to why they got the indication that browser was managed by organisation, when the device was personal, an had no attachment to an organisation.

most likely there isnt a browser hijack, one of your 2 extensions set a policy, and have any policy set will result in "managed by" message being displayed. create a new profile no extensions and see if the message is displayed. when install the extensions one by one and see if the message returns.

you might only started seeing the message now because the extension needs to set a policy to work, as google switched to manifest v3, which changed the way a lot of extensions now work with chrome.

 

[Priscus]

good idea thanks.