Improve the Rating - rubecube

The main reason, if you don't know about it, is that since version 5 GE introduced an autoupdater that installs stuff in your computer at root level, which connect to the net every 2 hours or so.
There are no other apps which dare to do so, not even Apple ones.

Such thing is unacceptable, dangerous and not necessary, since a common "upgrade on demand" feature would be more than enough.

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Thursday, September 10 2009 @ 11:47 AM PDT

Improve the Rating - mayall

I've checked and I don't see any Google or Keystone processes running. I see no evidence that there is an auto-update process running. Nor do I ever remember authorizing the installation of such a process (which would have been required to get it running as root).

Point me to where I can see this process running.

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Thursday, September 10 2009 @ 03:34 PM PDT

Improve the Rating - Me_2

First run has you authorize it, and the dialog has a link to their privacy policy.

I trashed it at that point. I'll use the old version til they stop supporting it, and then I'll use the online. They say it's "safer" to them to autoupdate me than for me to manually update Google products.
I think not.

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Thursday, September 10 2009 @ 06:08 PM PDT

Improve the Rating - Lanny Chambers

Simply delete ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.agent.plist to disable the checker.

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Thursday, September 10 2009 @ 11:03 PM PDT

Improve the Rating - Doctor J

I see. The random user is supposed to know to do this. Does Google mention it in their privacy policy? I thought not.

> Simply delete
> ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.agent.plist
> to disable the checker.

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Friday, September 11 2009 @ 07:38 AM PDT