I do agree with you (I'm a bit "paranoid" and I strongly dislike programs that communicate over the web, especially when not necessary and when not informing me).Thanks for the detailed explanation!
That's not proper IMHO.
No program should communicate with the internet without the user's consent.
Especially not Google.
But here, it's not really the game programmer that is directly responsible: he is just using a plugin that apparently "forces" a communication to check for updates.
Please, keep in mind that I'm not completely sure that this plugin is really the responsible of the communication you've detected. I've not done some tests to be quite sure (it could just a DNS resolution without any real connection).
If you are using a program (may be Wireshark ?) or a firewall to detect such outgoing connections, you could eventually modify the concerned plugin (it's just a javascript text file that can be modified with any text editor like Notepad ++, for instance) to replace the concerned URL (i.e. '
You must be registered to see the links
') and see if the connection is then modified when starting the program.
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