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How to change Google Software Update interval?

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Here are my methods that work on Mac OS El Capitan (10.11.6) and MacOS High Sierra (10.13.2) on my Mac Mini and MacBook Pro. The methods changed as both the Mac OS and Google Software Update evolving over the years. Since this is a know issue that can traced back to Google Earth in 2009, there are ton of tutorials, stack overflow discussions on how to disable it or uninstall it. But judging from the history dated back to 2009, I don’t have much hope on that. With all the information that I collected so far, I think it make sense that many Google Chrome users would want to remove the automatic software installer until such point as Google change it to behave less like a malware and give its users an ability to control the settings. and it will re-install by itself if you delete it.there is no uninstallation tool for you.it can’t be configured via a setting menu.it frequently sending data back to Google without your knowledge.

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it install in your computer without explicit asking for your permission, nor giving the options to decline it.

To be fair, all the information described seems to be harmless, but what I don’t understand is why Google make it behaves like a malware? What will you think if I’m telling you that there is a piece of software that: It also send Google information such as usage frequency and number of active profiles, etc. What does Google Software Update do?Īccording to Google Chrome Privacy Whitepaper, Google Software Update send information such as the version of your Google Chrome (or other Google Apps), its release channel, your computer’s hardware information. But to bad guys, this is an open source software that could be twisted and disguised to be malware or spyware. For a few good guys, this could be a tool provide seamless update with good user experience. Try to imaging that any software can use Omaha to securely install a piece of software on my Mac without my explicit permission and sending information about my usage patterns. This actually make me very uncomfortable. In another word, Google not only using a special version of Omaha itself, it also hoping others will adopt the technology. According to the Omaha github page, Omaha is the open-source version of Google Update. This leads me to Google’s github under a project code name Omaha. Google Software Update is used to support software patching (both background updating, and on-demand update checks) for Google Chrome, Earth, and a variety of other Google products on at least Mac and Windows as far as I know (and it probably on Linux platform as well).Īccording to Google, “in order to provide greater transparency and to make the technology available to other applications, the Google Update technology is open source” (Quoted from “Google Chrome Privacy Whitepaper”). Google Update on some of Google websites) is a program to install requested software and keep it up to date and running in the background without your knowledge on your computer.

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Like everything nowadays, I did a quick search on the Internet, and turns out there are full pages of search results related to this topic on the Internet, including an article from called “Why Google’s software update tool is evil” that dated back to 2009! The only Google software that I have on my Mac is Chrome browser.

When I trying to find out why my cron job doesn’t work (just to be clear, it has nothing to do with what I described in this article) a couple of days ago, I came across tons of quite verbose logs generated by a background daemon called GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent on my MacBook Pro’s system.log. Google Keystone (Google’s codename for its Google Software Update) has “mutated” since I published this article, be sure you read the “Update on July 2019” below.

Google Software Update is not a malware, but it behaves like a one. I never know there is a software called Google Software Update that is installed in my Mac without my knowledge and sending data back to google more frequent than it is necessary until a couple of days ago.