Repeating pop up apparently spam and not from Apple

Occasionally I get the following Pop Up on my screen. It appears at random intervals every week or two. I am running Mac OS 15.6.1 on a new generation Mac Mini. I do not have Chrome installed and do not use Google Docs. Any insight would be great.



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Posted on Aug 26, 2025 05:35 AM

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Aug 26, 2025 05:55 AM in response to JohnFreitag

This has come up a few times, for example this thread. As recommended there, the solution is to completely remove Chrome from your Mac. Use Safari, and for those rare occasions when Chrome is absolutely required, use Brave instead (same backbone, but without the pervasive data mining that Google uses to drive their revenue).


Removing Chrome is not as simple as deleting the application. Installing Chrome also instals several system extensions that will run in the background and provide your data to Google even if you never open the browser.


https://chromeisbad.com/

Repeating pop up apparently spam and not from Apple

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