By "disabled", you mean using `launchctl unload -w`? I would be surprised if apsd launched after doing that; macOS is pretty consistent about having all proces

By "disabled", you mean using `launchctl unload -w`? I would be surprised if apsd launched after doing that; macOS is pretty consistent about having all processes managed by launchd and not spawning things at random. Though since that works by modifying the plist file in /System/Library/LaunchDaemons, rather than setting a preference somewhere separate, a software update could end up resetting it. No idea about Little Snitch. Edit: Actually, launchctl apparently does use a separate preference these days; it used to modify the plist. Not sure when that changed or when you tried this.