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Re:Microsoft is phoning home the content of your PowerPoint ... by dagmx on Monday November 07, 2022 @12:29PM (#33509030)
You can still inspect whether you’re having packets sent when you add text or just when you click on certain options

You could add large amounts of text and see if the packets increase proportionally.

You can perhaps analyze which apps or extensions are sending packets.

This post doesn’t provide enough information of value

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Re:Microsoft is phoning home the content of your PowerPoint ... by smolder on Thursday November 10, 2022 @09:29AM (#33546939)
> You can still inspect whether you’re having packets sent when you add text or just when you click on certain options

Batching very commonly obscures this kind of UI interaction reporting.

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