Comment 21 for bug 1867424

By the current design, you don't give choice to the Ubuntu users as they cannot opt-out BEFORE
the laptop or server contacts motd.ubuntu.com sending the telemetry. By implementing it as
essential package, you don't let user remove it but only disable it when it is too late.

The same apply to landscape, you don't give choice to disable some dangerous features
like executing very powerful script, list all processes, etc. This is why, we decided to stop
using landscape (both in the cloud and on premises).

It will be your responsibility as Ubuntu Server manager, if motd.ubuntu.com gets compromised
and motd-news is exploited because it runs curl as root and all Ubuntu servers could get
compromised at the same time within 12 hours.