How to prevent Adobe from installing Google Chrome?

Hi all. It was either this Win 7 security forum of the 2008 R2 group policy forum so I figured more people run iinto this here than anybody. I'm a bit shocked to find I can't get an answer on this via Googling (then again, maybe Google disables
relevant search results, given the context of the situation)
As a standard build process for 2008 R2 domain-joined Win 7 computers, I manually install the latest Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash from www.adobe.com
Both products install with default settings to self-update in the future, which is done via a system service, which is what I want since I don't allow my users admin rights on their systems. And when I install these two items I always uncheck the optional
Google installs. However inevitably a month or two later I log onto a computer only to find Chrome installed.
Pardon the comment here TechNet moderators but needless to say, Google & Adobe [removed expletive]. If I uncheck the option to install Google Chrome and Toolbar when I first install the products, it means I don't want the damn things on there
later either. And neither does any other IT admin out there I am certain.
I looked in both Reader and Flash configuration menus and don't see a way to prevent this installation of optional items. The only option is basically to disable self-updating completely (in Flash's case at least - I can't even find the option
in Adobe Reader DC).
So with my rant and what not out of the way, is there a GPO method to prevent this, and yet still allow these products to self-update? Or any other solution to this problem at all? Thanks for your time. And if you are someone from Google
or Adobe responding, please understand I don't have a gripe against individuals, just the damned company that shoves unwanted junkware down our throats. FU larry and shantanu :)

I caught wind of some sort of management platform they have for hosting your own internal Adobe distribution server or something. I imagine that's their answer to this issue. Otherwise we're all chasing after a pointless pursuit - Adobe &
Google have what I assume is a multi-million dollar agreement to which a vocal minority of IT admins aren't going to find a way to reverse so there's no point in bothering with this since the whole structure of the arrangement is obviously designed to maximize
Chrome penetration to the market. Tech support may or may not know of workarounds but since any widespread workaround would go counter to the profitability of the above assumed agreement, I am certain I will be wasting my time. It's clear to me
the intent here is to push Chrome to millions of users via the auto-update of Flash, and so it's probably covered by the EULA as well, some kind of provision stating that if you accept auto-updating you accept 3rd party installs too.

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