| All you can do is gently request that the google updater deamon (keystone agent) please not update. It is still running. And the way to disable it is very obscure, and no user would be able to discover how to disable it on their own. If you remove it, and then try to run any Google Software, it will first lie to you and say that it needs you to authenticate so it can "function" properly. If you refuse, it will try to install it's code in ~/Library instead. If you intercept that, it will stop asking and work properly. Google software does not depend on its updater in any way. There is no technical reason to keep asking you to install it. They just don't respect your agency. And if you say no to root installation, they will settle for just a user installation. A lot of software that asks for authentication on first run is doing it solely to install it's helpers. Not just is it creepy asf and wrong, but sometimes features will be removed or changed without my consent. Software that was free when you downloaded it just got "upgraded" to shareware. Or maybe it just irreversibly converted all of its saved data to the new format that isn't backwards compatible. You would never have agreed to install that update if you actually knew what it was going to do. That makes it dishonest. |