What data is Netflix, Amazon, Freeview et all harvesting when offline

Jaded1

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So I've just installed a physical firewall on my home internet and in the app you can see where your data is going. Despite not activating any smart apps I can see that the above three have been dialling home while only using Freeview Most disturbingly Netflix is dialling out and in every 20 minutes or so. I understand that they use analytics when the app is in use and why but why is the connection so active when I'm not even using it? :confused:
 
I can see the amount of data to so it's definitely connecting otherwise it would say say 0Mb or just a couple of kB literally. It's gone over 5MB already.
 

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