When I connect to a VPN my Ubuntu laptop calls to an ip address BEFORE CONNECTING and the whois is:
inetnum: 185.125.188.0 - 185.125.191.255
netname: UK-CANONICAL-20151111
country: GB
...
organisation: ORG-CGL14-RIPE
org-name: Canonical Group Limited
country: GB
org-type: LIR
address: 5 New Street Square
address: EC4A 3TW
address: London
address: UNITED KINGDOM
What is this and why?? Why does Ubuntu check in to Canonical HQ when I connect to internet??
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I haven’t trusted Ubuntu since the Amazon ad debacle.
Wiped my drive, installed Debian, and haven’t looked back.
Fuck Canonical.
I don’t use Ubuntu cause of snap. What happened with Amazon ads?
Also ive never found any benefit from ubuntu-server over base debian. What the fuck is the difference?
Back inbthe mid 00s, Canonical decided to send our searches to Amazon and show us ads in the system search results.
Debian is the parent of Ubuntu. It’s more stable, and doesn’t have the corporate influence to enshitify it.
Thats wild. Fuck Canonical.
It’s almost certainly related to cloud-init, (the canonical tool for handling deployment automation) or Ubuntu pro (extra long support for backporting security packages to older distros, plus some conveniences). They’re pre installed as a convenience to paid users of those services, that’s the (IMHO, quite reasonable) model they use to fund the distro. I would expect that some or all of that traffic would disappear if you disable/remove those two services.
https://cloud-init.io/
https://ubuntu.com/pro
Sniff the packets and see if you can determine what the data is.
Canonical is the company that create Ubuntu
https://canonical.com/
tcpdump that shit
What exactly is the connection?
My guess would be an online connectivity check. Most systems try and reach some domain to say if they have network or not. Would be a logical place for them to try.
Or NTP sync
DNS?