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Here is something I noticed about POP OS, Let me start by saying I LOVE POP OS, but this was concerning for me so I UNINSTALLED Firefox. Install Opensnitch a soft firewall, https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch , its an excellent firewall and put you in control of ALL connections in and out of your OS with a ez GUI, on a Fresh install of POP OS, it will prompt you for Mozilla Firefox trying to phone home with in minutes after install is complete without even launching Firefox. The weather widget/feature in POP OS is somehow tied into Mozilla and tries to phone home etc, and like other folks said Mozilla Firefox by default phones home and collects data about you, you have to disable it. I removed Firefox and the weather widget feature quit working.
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