Chrome adding itself to login items.

You might want to give Firefox a try on those sites. If it works then you can remove Chrome and all of it's associated support files (which are seemingly to reinstall each time) with the free app AppCleaner .

WARNING: If you use AppCleaner on an app that you have other apps from the same developer, like Adobe, you must be extremely careful checking all checkboxes and deleting.  Some for those files may support other apps from the same developer and deleting them can mess them up.  Adobe apps is a primary example. I know from experience.  For singular apps from a developer it's safe.

I won't use Chrome for the following reasons:

1 - It is known that Chrome and, in particular, the "keystone" daemons that it installs, completely hog the system videotoolbox, for no sane reason, and cause any video applications to crash or hang, even lose pieces of functionality.

2 - it mines your personal information about where you go on the internet, what you search form, etc. and sells it to the highest bidder.

I don't need that type of invasion into my activities.

Google Chrome Repeatedly Adds itself to Login Items - Apple Community

Aswin_Kutteri wrote:

It is strange that none of the steps mentioned in the community works for me.

Apple tech support does not have any solution.

That is because Chrome is a 3rd party app. Apple tech support has no idea how Chrome works and has no control over it.

What is the next step? Do we keep closing the chrome when the mac boots up?

Most reports suggest this is caused by a Chrome extension. But because apps are self-contained, there is no way for anyone to know how it works internally.

This is a user-to-user tech support forum for Apple products. While I realize Chrome is very popular, you have stumbled upon one of the few places on the internet where you are least likely to find anyone who knows anything about Chrome.

Ventura has made some complicated background behaviour more visible. But all it did was make this behaviour visible.

Chrome Updater is a service that runs seperately from the Chrome browser extensions. Disable the Chrome Updater service. Please review all your login items and review them. I am sure that it's the extensions that affect this issue. It could be some other app like VPN extensions, anti-virus, brower helpers etc.. that could be launching during login and affect your chrome installation..

One other thing you can do is to make sure you uninstall Chrome, try it out if it comes back agian... Then re-install it again, now not allowing any of the Chrome apps to launch during login.

@laksjan Thank you.. it solved for me. Im sure removing the icon from the dock is the solution

Yeah, this stinks. I keep Chrome on my system for the occasional site the doesn't play well with Safari. Every time you start Chrome, it adds it to your Login Items. You can remove it, and then the next time you open Chrome, it repeats this behavior. What gives?

*NVM, didn't see the link from @johngalt - I will research this.

Exactly. No matter how many times you remove it, it adds itself back. An Apple tech told me it's in my Chrome extensions, but we removed valuable extensions that would have been the culprit, & now I'm without those extensions & the PROBLEM PERSISTS. It automatically adds itself back to the login items sometime after startup. EVERY TIME.

You can call it a Chrome problem, but it's VENTURA that started it.

I entirely agree with @grossmusic here. I have used Chrome without issues for years until I updated to VENTURA. Loads of extensions in Chrome have NEVER caused this problem until I upgraded to VENTURA. It is absolutely a VENTURA problem. I have researched up and down to solve it and nothing works. I sure hope Apple provides a fix for this.

I am also having the same issue with Google Chrome adding itself to the "Login Items startup". I also started having issues with my fingerprinting not working as expected after the Ventura update. I have created a ticket for the fingerprinting issue and working with the apple support for the last 4 weeks and still not yet resolved.

They took the diagnostics dump from my MacBook Pro and was informed that it didn't have any use, or no resolution for me.

Apple needs to work harder either to test the new OS properly or fix the issues faster. They are now slowly becoming more like the MS Windows OS, releasing buggy OS to customer and then followed by multiple patches.

If Steve Jobs would be alive now, he would have thrown out the Ventura OS & its development team now.

Fix all the bugs..

It is strange that none of the steps mentioned in the community works for me.

Apple tech support does not have any solution.

What is the next step? Do we keep closing the chrome when the mac boots up?

One more thing about Apple support... the support doesn't even know what version of Linux OS they're using as a base. He/She said that it's a Unix not Linux.

I definitely see that it's a some kind of Debian version that they customize for their machines/OS. The executables are also with .deb files.. and file structure falls under some legacy version of Deb.

laksjan wrote:

One more thing about Apple support... the support doesn't even know what version of Linux OS they're using as a base. He/She said that it's a Unix not Linux.

This is true.

I definitely see that it's a some kind of Debian version that they customize for their machines/OS. The executables are also with .deb files.. and file structure falls under some legacy version of Deb.

macOS has nothing whatsoever to do with Debian. If you have specific questions about specific files, it would be better to start a new question about that topic. It's a fascinating topic, but it doesn't have anything to do with this Chrome problem.

But macOS merely looks like Linux. It actually pre-dates Linux. It was Linux that was designed to mimic the appearance and behaviour of the BSD system that macOS is very loosely based on.

Aswin_Kutteri wrote:

It is strange that none of the steps mentioned in the community works for me.

Apple tech support does not have any solution.

What is the next step?

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So you use CleanMyMac BTW, Thomas Z? I would't.

At best, this suspicious app takes up system resources without doing any good. There are other, less risky ways to clean up space if that's what you used it for. Its anti malware function is not reliable.