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Re:Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill ... by londons_explore on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:03PM (#23171810)
If you keep up to date with commits on the chromium code repo, you'd see them change it from time to time. For a while it was 'youshallnotpass'.

You probably shouldn't be using an opensource project without at least a cursory glance at the code anyway, especially as a power user.

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Re:Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill ... by lostcolony on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:44PM (#23172186)
You're kidding right? You look at every commit of every open source app you use, or that a closed source app is built atop? For me, off the top of my head, that would mean, yes, Chrome, Firefox, the Linux Kernel, Libre Office, Android, VLC...probably plenty more that I am unaware are open source, and that's not even considering the dev tools to do my job. When would I actually have time to have a life?
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Re:Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill ... by skykooler on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:04PM (#23172355)
Exactly. Reading the source of every program you used was certainly possible back in the 80's when the FOSS movement started; but nowadays, with every program being millions of lines of code, it's implausible to get through all that and still have time to actually use the software.
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Re:Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill ... by lostcolony on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:22PM (#23172516)
Not to mention background updating. I don't even know when Chrome has updated half the time, unless something stops working.
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Re:Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill ... by brigandish on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @08:19PM (#23173528)
If you're on OSX/macOS (what a silly rebrand) then if you look in ~/Library/LaunchAgents (and possibly /Library/LaunchAgents and /Library/LaunchDaemons) for any .plist from Google (or Keystone) in there and add

    <key>Disabled</key><true/>
under the first <dict> and then unload each file, e.g.

    launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.*
The auto-updating stops and stop them reloading after a reboot/logon.
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Re:Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill ... by makapuf on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:44PM (#23172192)
Im not sure a cursory glance at the 25 millions lines of code will do much if you dont already know what to search.
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