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It was especially bad when I was up all night trying to finish my embargoed video reviews for the iPhones, Apple Watch, Macs, and everything else released this year. See, all year, I've been incredibly frustrated, maddened even, by similar problems and had similarly tried everything I could think of. Everything was instantly and noticeably faster, and WindowServer CPU was well under 10% again.

I deleted everything from Google I could find, restarted the computer, and it was like night-and-day. I deleted Chrome, and noticed Keystone while deleting some of Chrome's other preferences and caches. Activity Monitor showed nothing from Google using the CPU, but WindowServer was taking ~80%, which is abnormally high (it should use <10% normally).Р”Вoing all the normal things (quitting apps, logging out other users, restarting, zapping PRAM, etc) did nothing, then I remembered I had installed Chrome a while back to test a website.

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I noticed my brand new 16' MacBook Pro started acting sluggishly doing even trivial things like scrolling. It also has a long history of crashing Macs.Р”Р‡rom Loren's website, and this part really resonated with me, and I'll tell you why in a sec: There is no reason for auto-update software to need to do what Chrome/Keystone was doing. But either way, I'm not inclined to give Google-the-organization the benefit of the doubt (despite the many good people who work on Chrome) since it's been a decade+ and this still hasn't been 'fixed'.

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I don't know if Google was doing something nefarious with Keystone, or a third party figured out how to (which Wired warned about). And other websites have reported on problems with it since then. But, according to Loren's theory, when that process goes wrong, it goes wrong before Keystone shows up in Activity Monitor, which makes it effectively hidden even as it's causing the problem.Р”Р„lso, that this is nothing new, that Wired called Keystone 'evil' way back in 2009 already, when it kicked off with Google Earth. Now, it isn't that Google's background updater, Keystone, hides itself from Activity Monitor it's that it only shows up when it's actively updating Chrome.

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