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Re:Apple, Firefox tools aim to thwart Facebook, Google tracking by copperx on Monday September 17, 2018 @11:45AM (#18006988)
Is the Keystone Agent run by cron? Modifying crontab is just a few keystrokes.
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Re:Apple, Firefox tools aim to thwart Facebook, Google tracking by sirn on Monday September 17, 2018 @11:54AM (#18007075)
Keystone Agent is running by launchd on macOS, usually modifying defaults can stop it from running:

    defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 0
However, this won't remove the agent from the system, and I think there's no way to be sure Google won't change this configuration key in an update (or even overriding its value).
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