Auzy,

That shows they’re doing a connectivity check to see if they’re online (which they aren’t)… And grabbed Android TV channels.

Connectivity checks in particular are absolutely standard practice. Even many routers do them

I’m not convinced this is a good reason for dumping google

jjlinux,

At this point, for me, any reason to dump Google is a good reason.

Player2,

I agree that these should be blocked for privacy, but the amount of these requests is really completely meaningless. The reason there are so many is because they are blocked, not despite it. It will keep trying over and over on failure.

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