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"It is magical because it continuously updates an entire development platform invisibly, frequently" That "frequently" is every 30 minutes, by the way... I acc
by mrspeaker 15y ago
"It is magical because it continuously updates an entire development platform invisibly, frequently"
That "frequently" is every 30 minutes, by the way... I accidentally removed the goog updater from my Lil Snitch rules and noticed that it then started asking permission every 30 minutes, on the dot (I started recording the times for a while).
I don't know why it needs to check so often - except that that kind of data would be very useful for noting how often your users were on 'puters, and if they moved around etc.
- lojack 15y agoOut of curiosity, were you allowing it to check? If you denied permissions I could see it asking every 30 minutes since it failed the previous attempt.
- rmc 15y agoA hyper short time could be massively benefitial to security. Imagine a security bug fix that's installed on every browser within the hour.
- duck 15y agoThat is true... but it can go the other way to: Imagine a security bug that is introduced on every browser within the hour.
- heelhook 15y agoIn this case the benefit far outweighs the cost, if a bug is introduced in an update I want Google to be able to patch it and my browser to receive it asap.
- rmc 15y agoYes, that would be a problem, but it would have an easy fix, revert!
- T-hawk 15y agoEven worse: imagine a poisoned update that gets installed on every browser within the hour. Or just an update with a non-malicious bug that breaks the updating mechanism. (This last has happened to companies the size of McAfee and Skype.)
- Zakuzaa 15y agoI think that must be once in 30 minutes polling not once in 30 minutes updates.
- Florin_Andrei 15y agoJust curious - when does it do its first check? Immediately upon launch, or after 30 minutes of wait?