`snapd` using Internet even with no snaps running and update aborted

I’m back at home and on less than 1mbps Internet (yeah it’s fun), unfortunately snapd's practice to update snaps in the background, silently, is not very user-friendly for those with poor Internet. I think it’s a really great feature, but people with poor Internet won’t realise what’s taking it up.

Anyway, I used snap changes then snap task 337 and snap watch 337 to see what was happening. It was updating the musescore and atom snaps. I used sudo snap abort 337 and snapd was still using up my Internet. Why? I stopped the task and no other tasks running and it’s still using up Internet long after I stopped that. I’m running no snaps at the moment.

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