How much does Ubuntu eat traffic?

Question

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There are cases when there is no direct connection to the Internet, in cases where it would be possible to open a hotspot from a mobile connection for a PC. Unfortunately, I already know from sad experience how Windows 10 can quietly “eat up” traffic even after specifying the connection in the settings as paid and following the rest of the advice.
The question itself - does it also "eat" pure Ubuntu? It would be interesting to hear advice.

Answer 1

Disable updates in ubuntu - will eat 0 bytes.

Answer 2

What did you want? Big Brother wants to see you - that's why Windows knocks where it's written. Linux by itself eats traffic only for updates - installed software, programs, and some programs need to disable updates inside it - FF, for example, a toad, Flash Player ...

Answer 3

If you are afraid for the traffic, it is better to install not Ubuntu (in which Unity tries so hard to please the user that it loads ads by searching for it in the application menu), but Xubuntu, for example. Well, of course, if you put, say, a weather widget, it goes to the Internet for information. Turned on the messenger - the same way. We launched a browser - it can also theoretically have its own interests, especially add-ons.
And the system itself will not get into the Internet, why should it? Disable autoload check for updates, and that's it.

Answer 4

Ubuntu doesn't eat anything. Mb check for updates, but will not download itself.
Win also does not eat if you configure the firewall correctly - whitelist policy + disable updates. Actual for win7 and below. What kind of obscurantism in win10 with telemetry - xs, but I saw a lot of resources on how to eradicate this matter (configs).