Is this just Linux propaganda, or how much of it is true?

How interesting! Never knew. Its making it a bit hard to read but thats ok I guess. Thanks for the info!

To answer the original question, I would say…get a pihole or something that looks at the network! Its fascinating to see without a doubt what modern day computers are reaching the internet for. Since there is 1001+ Linux distros all I can definitively say is that some of the more popular distros take care of the nitty gritty at the cost of using their own servers for a couple of things. A vast majority of the time its not nefarious.