Heya, I recently discovered Zorin OS and tried it on my old PC. However, I noticed something since privacy is very important to me.
Why does Zorin OS send pings to your servers every 5 minutes on a newly installed OS? During Zorin OS installation, I opted out of the census, but I still see pings. I even checked if the ‘zorin-os-census’ package was installed or not. I also installed the package and then uninstalled it with ‘–purge,’ but there was no change.
I couldn’t find any census files in the cron folders (etc… cron.d, /daily/hourly/monthly/weekly).
The main concern is the IP 146.190.225.48, which corresponds to the domain connectivity.zorin-os.com.
Here are the captures I found with Wireshark:
How can I disable these?
Edit: I am using the newest Zorin OS Core with the NVIDIA Drivers from the Install process on Wayland.