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Exactly. Reading the source of every program you used was certainly possible back in the 80's when the FOSS movement started; but nowadays, with every program being millions of lines of code, it's implausible to get through all that and still have time to actually use the software.


Not to mention background updating. I don't even know when Chrome has updated half the time, unless something stops working.


If you're on OSX/macOS (what a silly rebrand) then if you look in ~/Library/LaunchAgents (and possibly /Library/LaunchAgents and /Library/LaunchDaemons) for any .plist from Google (or Keystone) in there and add

    <key>Disabled</key><true/>
under the first <dict> and then unload each file, e.g.

    launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.*
The auto-updating stops and stop them reloading after a reboot/logon.




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