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[Sirius]

I just spent some time looking at blocked outbound requests and did some tracing.

Seems like Microsoft has been buying add companies.   Xandr, Formerly AppNexus aka Adnxs.com, Is Now Formerly AT&T, After Its Acquisition By Microsoft ... AT&T has sold its ad tech business Xandr to Microsoft
https://www.adexchanger.com/online-adver...microsoft/

Say that three times quickly

[Sirius]

Old news aparantly https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddoty/2...our-peril/

It doesn't matter if you use their products or not, they still get revenue from marketing the adds.  Pretty smart.

Also real nasty tracking.