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@davidgerard
On Linux you can do exactly the same 0-byte file thing and remove write permissions for it, and if Chrome changes them back and overwrites it (probably won't but in case) you can just do it again AND change the owner to the root user (so that even your user won't be able to modify it), or worst case scenario do the "nuclear" option of making it immutable with "chattr +i", almost nothing ever reverts this
Of course the best choice is always to abandon the Chrome spyware