Can you stop launching wget or curl as root? -- Please!

Launching a web crawler/browser such as wget or curl as super user root is a 
bad design
specially if it runs in background without user consent and knowledge every 12h 
on all 
Ubuntu Desktop and Server based devices worldwide.

It does not following IT Best Practices and is part of a unremovable package 
aka base-files
https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5557

REFERENCES
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1867424

** Bug watch added: github.com/curl/curl/issues #5557
   https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/5557

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