Installed it and on startup it immediately made a request to googleapis.com (142.251.36.106). We cannot be friends if you think this is in any way acceptable.
A quick look at their repos suggests it could be something to do with supporting Google accounts, e.g. calendars in GNOME Accounts, or maybe to retrieve fonts? Difficult to tell without reading the related code.
Absolutely agree. The same goes for features like wifi login portal detection. I would much prefer it to be user triggered, or at the very least, use a self hosted service or non-Google provider like Mozilla.
If so, I'm disappointed. I thought one of the big reasons S76 was building a new desktop was to do things differently from Gnome.
That said I'm a former employee and while I worked there they were very privacy focused. I don't see why that would change and I bet we'll see this solved.
