Gnome weather extension as malware?

[Tim]

Robert Moskowitz:
>> This extension gets its weather information from the Norway weather service,
>> and you can't change this.

Suvayu Ali:
> This is standard practise among many FOSS weather monitoring tools.  A
> year or so back most popular weather feeds either stopped, went
> proprietary, or kept changing their feed structure too often.  At this
> point many FOSS weather tools moved to the service provided by Norwegian
> Weather Institute.  It is never going to go proprietary, and will most
> likely stay alive for the foreseeable future.  It is also rather
> reliable.

While that sounds reasonable, the 15 second refresh period does not.
Does it really do that?  Is it really necessary to do so?

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