You don't know the half of it sister. Try this on for size anyone with Linux Mint, or ESPECIALLY fucking MXLinux on a fresh installation. Download the application etherape and run it as root. Monitor the network traffic for 10 minutes. Notice all the domains and IP addresses that it connects to. Suspects indeed.  Catch them red handed and demand an explanation. You probably won't get one. 

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