If you’re managing Windows devices on which Google Chrome is installed, you might get a question to block the Turn on an ad privacy feature and Other ad privacy features now available pop-up screens, which are shown to the user when they first start the browser.
A Group Policy setting is available to hide the screen, but unfortunately, at the moment of writing, the setting to hide this pop-up screen is not available in the Settings Catalog profile in Microsoft Intune.
Fortunately, we have the option to import ADMX files to Microsoft Intune, after which we have the settings available to block these annoying pop-up screens.
So let’s have a quick look at how this is done.
Importing the ADMX file to Intune
First, download the Google Chrome ADMX templates, including the ADML files. The zip file contains the Google and Chrome ADMX and ADML files, which we all need to import to Intune. As the Chrome template file has references to the Google template file, we first need to import the Google template files before we can import the Chrome template files. But the Chrome template file also has a reference to the Windows template file. So we also need to import the Windows templates files, before we can import the Chrome template file. The Windows templates files are available on your Windows 11 machine in the folder C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions.
Next, sign in to the Microsoft Intune admin center. Browse to Devices, Windows, Configuration, and open the ADMX Import tab. Click + Import.
Select the Windows.admx and Windows.adml file from the C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions folder to import these files.
Repeat these steps for the Google template files.
Wait until these files are finished importing. repeat these steps for the Chrome template files.
The required ADMX and ADML files are imported.
Create an Intune configuration policy
The next step is to create a configuration policy with the setting to block the Turn on an ad privacy feature
In the Intune portal, click on the Policies tab and click on +Create.
As Platform, select Windows 10 and later. As Policy type, select Templates and select Imported administrative templates (preview).
Click Create.
Enter a Name and Description (optional) and click Next.
Browse to Google, Google Chrome, Privacy sandbox policies, and select the setting Choose whether the Privacy Sandbox prompt can be shown to your users. OR directly search for this setting.
Select Disabled and click OK.
This is the only setting we need, although there are other privacy sandbox-related settings that you might want to configure.
Finish creating the policy and assign the policy to a group of your choice.
The end result
There is not much to show for the end result as the annoying pop-up screens are not shown anymore.
But, when you open the browser and browse to Chrome://policy, we can see the policy is configured.
That’s it for this post.
Thank you for reading!
