Many OS' and apps create unsolicited TCP connections on startup to check for updates, seems a touch harsh to equate that with "Zero Privacy", also kind of hard to see how they do product updates without them...
For non-technical users, it seems pretty likely that a product without automatic updates, users won't update frequently.
This results in users getting compromised... a lot... that's why pretty much every heavily used piece of consumer software now does automatic updates, from Apple, to Google to Microsoft.
Decrying automatic updates as "zero privacy" seems a bit daft in that context.