Why does qt-creator need to connect to google-analytics?

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Published on 2012-12-19T07:08:57Z Indexed on 2012/12/19 17:14 UTC
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I just installed qt-creator to work on non-qt C++ projects. The installed version is 2.5.0 (Based on Qt 4.8.2 32-bit)

If I click on any of these pages: image showing qt-creator home page links

I get this error: image showing the error

I realized that /etc/hosts file has the following entry:

127.0.0.1  www.google-analytics.com

I don't want to remove the entry from the hosts file because it's always been there along with thousands of other similar adservices/porn/malware addresses.

I do not intend to say that qt-creator is looking to create problems in my computer, but I am genuinely interested to know why qt-creator needs to connect to google-analytics? Can this be disabled and qt-creator can still be functional?

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