# Screw Google and Google Earth - I don't care about your updates

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-google-and-google-earth-i-dont-care-about-your-updates/492411>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 8, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-google-and-google-earth-i-dont-care-about-your-updates/492411 "2009-04-08T18:30:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-google-and-google-earth-i-dont-care-about-your-updates/492411/21 "2009-04-12T13:53:04Z")

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I totally agree with the OP. Just after installing Google earth I delete the updater program so it won’t run. Fuck that.

And I wish they would test their programs just a bit more because I have never had GE work completely as intended. In one version something won’t work on my computer. In the next version that is corrected but something else is screwed up. Rather than come out with a new version evry other week I wish they would wait a bit and test more.

I have heard quite a few people complain the path or poligon tools crashes the program which used to happen to me. Now the ruler tool will not remember the units. The program needs some serious going over.

With quite a few programs I have opted to keep older versions which work fine for me and are not so bulky and have no crapware. I always make a point of keeping the original files so I can reinstall them.

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**Author:** ![Alienhand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Alienhand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alienhand)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-google-and-google-earth-i-dont-care-about-your-updates/492411/22 "2009-04-13T23:49:41Z")

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Related [article](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/13/google_update_omaha_open_source/) from the guys at El Reg.

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> Google has thrown a little-known but controversial part of its web services code to open sorcerers to prove to skeptics there’s nothing funny going on under the covers.
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> As a central auto-updater for such applications it may be handy, but unfortunately GoogleUpdate is always on, can’t be uninstalled unless every single Google apps is removed first, and until now, we’ve had to take Google’s word that it’s only sending innocuous user and system data back to Google’s servers.

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-google-and-google-earth-i-dont-care-about-your-updates/492411/23 "2009-04-14T07:59:12Z")

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I don’t know if it can be removed. I just delete the file and it is blocked by Zonealarm anyway. Google Earth seems to work OK.

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**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-google-and-google-earth-i-dont-care-about-your-updates/492411/24 "2009-04-14T16:40:40Z")

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I want to add Adobe to this outrage, WHAT does it need weekly updates for?

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