Crashes, freezes, stopping systems from sleeping... I don't want Google's (or anyone else's) code running in the background doing whatever it wants. Want to check for an update and notify me? Great. But don't do anything else.
You might be on the wrong operating system if you don't like "code running in the background doing whatever it wants" as Apple has never shied away from doing just so. Try inspecting what your computer does when you've been away from it for 30 or so minutes, and you'll see a lot of chatter from Apple apps.
> I don't want Google's (or anyone else's) code running in the background doing whatever it wants.
Is it really "doing whatever it wants" or just updating itself? Doing whatever it wants seems like a much broader range of activities.
Crashing or freezing is a problem, but isn't all software susceptible to those bugs? What if Chrome was crashing or freezing on other people's computers and the latest update fixed it for them?
The problem with your preferred methodology of opting in to updates is that 90% of users won't do it, which leads to security and compatibility nightmares.
I get that an update can cause problems. But to say that all auto-updating is terrible and it just breaks things and software is doing "whatever it wants" in the background seems like an exaggeration and misses the larger benefits.
