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If Start menu ads in Windows 11 aren't bad enough, something worse might be on the horizon (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Also, MS could easily (and has) coded some processes to not lookup DNS addresses in things like LMHOSTS or HOSTS, they could just as easily bypass DNS itself. They certainly have plenty of public IPs they could have a process submit to the network stack.