It isn't new. Here is Ubuntu in 2018 deliberately pushing bit.ly links to their blog to track you in when you login to your box. https://ostechnix.com/how-to-

It isn't new. Here is Ubuntu in 2018 deliberately pushing bit.ly links to their blog to track you in when you login to your box. https://ostechnix.com/how-to-disable-ads-in-terminal-welcome-message-in-ubuntu-server/ https://ostechnix.com/how-to-disable-ads-in-terminal-welcome... Absolutely vile behaviour from Ubuntu / Canonical.