Apps need access to the system keychain to do things other than store passwords, (accessing certificates for authorization is a common one), and those connections sound like the automated update checks based on their behavior. (Which I don&#x27;t think you can disable- but why the <i>hell</i> would you?)<p>If you want to test that, temporarily disable the little snitch rule and keep an eye on the top right hamburger menu - it&#x27;ll turn green or orange if updates are pending.<p>It sounds like you&#x27;ve decided to treat Chrome as a hostile app and are going to evaluate <i>everything</i> it does negatively in that light. If that&#x27;s the case, why not just uninstall it?