![]() For example, even with no Live tiles pinned to Start (and hence no obvious need to poll for new tile data), Windows 10 seems to download new tile info from MSN's network from time to time, using unencrypted HTTP to do so. Some of the traffic looks harmless but feels like it shouldn't be happening. If you want to turn even these off there is a way to do so, but the privacy impact is minimal. These requests are very bare, with no machine IDs or other data sent. ![]() On connecting to a new network, Windows machines try to request two URLs (and /ncsi.txt, the former over IPv4, the latter over IPv6) to ascertain whether a given network is routed to the Internet and if there is a captive portal in the way (NCSI stands for "Network Connection Status Indicator"). Some of the traffic is obviously harmless. ![]() Enlarge / Shown in the Fiddler debugging Web proxy, the request that the Start menu makes every time you start typing into it or boot your machine. ![]()
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