> Nor do you bring up the traffic to the IP addresses offered by > pool.ntp.org. That traffic has a pattern easily distinguished as > "system startup". > > What's the difference? There isn't. Yet you brought up only google.
I can understand why someone would be ok with sending some packets to small players like pool.ntp.org and not be ok with sending packets to extremely big and powerful companies that are in the business of surveillance capitalism. Divide and conquer!
