I leave task manager open while the computer is "idle" to see spikes in the Wi-Fi network throughput graph so I can rest assured that at least my lone machine a

I leave task manager open while the computer is "idle" to see spikes in the Wi-Fi network throughput graph so I can rest assured that at least my lone machine activity is being automatically "seen" by the telemetry-harvesting crawler code lovingly hand-crafted&looped by fellow citizens across the globe who are polite and ambitious when they deliver a quarterly measurement of each other's usage metrics.