The cronjob is run from cron; cron is configured via /etc/pam.d/cron to
use pam_env.so by default, which reads /etc/environment.  Why is this
not working on your system?

Individual cron jobs should definitely not be expected to source
/etc/environment directly.

** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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  update-notifier does not user configured system proxy when downloading
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