Gnome calculator pings the International Monetary Fund website
github.comApp showing currency exchange has to look up currency rates. News at 11.
I would prefer it to be opt-in
Not too long ago, Gnome calculator would freeze and crash when it tried to download currency conversion data. It would make such requests on each startup, eventually it was fixed in Ubuntu LTS but was broken for quite some time.
So will qalc from libqalculate.
Wow, gnome defaulting to doing something dumb, who woulda thunk it.