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I found the same thing with little snitch and Firefox. Now I block all the mozilla domains using little snitch and update firefox using Safari.

Related, people also complain about Microsoft phoning home, but Apple does the same thing. (Not that apple is as blatant a jerk as microsoft)

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Add Google to the list. It is unfortunate that not even one of these companies can differentiate from the others on this practice. They each assume that the user gives them a free pass to make automatic outbound connections, where no consent from the user is required, for whatever purpose they deem "necessary".

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