[gus_]

Unfortunately that is not entirely true.

For example, when closing firefox on OpenSUSE Leap 15.6, "pingsender" is launched to collect telemetry:

https://imgur.com/a/k3Nnbbj

It has been there for years. It is also on other distros.

[diggan]

Did someone report/open a issue about it? Maybe it's as simple as them not being aware of it.