I don't get it, why is my location relevant?

its so they know what time to set the clock to

wasn't ubuntu le bad

Just select the proper timezone on a different country

Marketers are unironically like this.

notice how random locations within those slices are acceptable, but not any old city, you are selecting a location for time syncing, selected cities have zone files as well as things like CST, IST etc

winjews has done this since 95 in a nearly indentical manner
hell, it outright asked you to pick your country from a list along with that
was pretty funny picking "Yugoslavia" when installing it in 86box earlier this year

you have never done anything important enough to warrant anyone to actively spy on you. muh privacy is a mental disease of unchecked hedonism.

tiny gnome in your computer

Time, don't worry about cities just randomly plot it inside the timezone

If you're a kid there's big odds your parents are spying on you. I remember reading some random discord conversation about parents getting mad at some kid for installing linux, because it invalidates their spyware. That's the thing, it might not be agent Glower but it might be your mom, or your neighbor, or aunt Bertha.

so let me set a timezone instead you mongoloid

That's what it's doing, retard.