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Chrome does a non-standard install and also can be self modified which isn't secure. Chrome could be replaced by a keylogger+chrome by anything running on the system.

That's why admin privileges are required for accessing Program Files to begin with.

Using a separate updater process is actually the clean way to go, on Windows.



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