Apple, Firefox tools aim to thwart Facebook, Google tracking

Re:Apple, Firefox tools aim to thwart Facebook, Google tracking by sirn on Monday September 17, 2018 @11:58AM (#18007110)

I have never tried, but presumably launchd won't run the Keystone agent (although using defaults command can archive the same, if we were to just disable it from running).

The issue is when we want to keep Chrome and maybe other Google apps installed, while _not_ have Keystone, and not letting any Google software reinstall Keystone. In that case, it involve uninstalling Keystone agent, creating GoogleSoftwareUpdate directory then chmod that directory to 000 both in ~/Library/Google and /Library/Google

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Re:Apple, Firefox tools aim to thwart Facebook, Google tracking by saagarjha on Monday September 17, 2018 @12:49PM (#18007580)

Is there a component to Keystone I'm missing aside from the agent? Because if launchd can't run it, presumably Keystone wouldn't work.

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Re:Apple, Firefox tools aim to thwart Facebook, Google tracking by sirn on Monday September 17, 2018 @01:02PM (#18007702)

I believe Chrome itself do invoke Keystone when visiting chrome://chrome to manually check for updates, as it looks like from a forum post[1] (Chrome unable to check for updates after chmod 000'ing GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent)

[1]: https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/14162/google-ch...

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