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CleanMyMac itself hooks into macOS's "Allow in the Background" framework here, so it's playing by Apple's rules rather than working around them. You could do most of this via System Settings and a lot of manual digging, but the point here is visibility: you see what's running, how heavy it is, and you can trim without spelunking through multiple folders.