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I just do not understand this fear of just checking if an update exists. It downloads nothing and no update is done. It does not cause any problems if the user is offline. FWIW, Sigil also uses the internet to do its CSS validation when directed to do so. Again that fails when the user is offline.
Any modern OS does much much more on startup including checking for mail, time synching, caching favourite pages, checking for their own updates, starting up a number of daemons to monitor ports, etc.
Why does this one check for the single value from the version.xml file hosted on github really matter in any way? We do not get to see the github server logs so we have no way to track anyone ever, and the huge volume of traffic that hits github makes our checks totally meaningless to them.
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