The firmware may have the capability of doing this (it varies from device to device how much it can do compared to the OS), but the article is 100% incorrect ab

The firmware may have the capability of doing this (it varies from device to device how much it can do compared to the OS), but the article is 100% incorrect about the source of these requests specifically, they are managed by android itself, they just "couldn't find an explanation", which strikes me as odd when an explanation from 3 years ago is literally the top google result for the OS and the domain name in question.