Google Earth 5 gets wet and goes back in time

I've deleted the autoupdater, and restored Google Earth to 4.3

Howcome nobody seems too concerned with this? Only 8 posts here. Other sites/blogs have a bit of discussion, with many people being "for" the autoupdater.

I don't understand. Google wants to do something evil like run some hidden/protected process on my computer, even when I don't have Earth open. This is terrible. Why isn't the world in uproar about it?

This is so "Microsoft" of them. Why do they need to run something on my computer all the time? What if a newer version doesn't work as well? Can I roll back and prevent a further update?

Why does their ever-present process need to run as Root? Isn't that asking for someone to hack it?

I update when I want - and what I want - and NOT when Google decides it wants to update (or screw up) anything on my Mac. I downgraded back to 4.3.

When I found out it wants to install a continuous running background process for updating all Google Mac programs - I declined to install this version.

I'm not against a unified updater that runs when you start the application, but the way Google sells this (allow it or else) doesn't sit right with me at all.

That request (well, 'request') screen pops up *after* installing the application and is not mentioned on the download page. Time Machine quickly returned me to 4.3, which will suffice.

Screw the ocean floor.

I find it interesting that under preferences, in the Mac OS X version of Google Earth 5, it gives you the following options for selecting your email program: OS X Mail, Entourage, or Eudora—no GMAIL.

FYI, Google Earth is *not* a free download for your work computer.