Please offer opinion on data drain, documented by Glasswire

Mark, thanks for the info and sharing your experience but for one thing, I don't use Edge.  I neutered that browser in all of the computers quite some time ago. It doesn't even update.

Regardless, this isn't what happened here. For this to happen, there must be change. Nothing here has changed. There never is and never has been a news feed or google home page running in my Chrome so that possibility is out. The only things running in my Chrome are the same assortment of tabs that have been open in Chrome for years. They restore with every reboot and don't change. None have ever gone berserk. The only one that refreshes automatically is whatever Outlook account is loaded into outlook.live.com at the time. There's no reason for this browser to jump from averaging less than 50 mb a day to an average of more than 4500 per day. And then suddenly stop the drain with no changes in the browser at all

Nothing open in any tab could have changed the data usage of this very limited use browser from maybe a GB a month to 9.4 GB in two 24 hour days before suddenly stopping on it's own after depleting my plan data and 3.9 GB of my token bytes. On this, the third day the data drain dropped to 107.3 MB. I notice that number has now increased to 108 MB for the day. We'll see what Glasswire says tomorrow but it appears to be done.

Still, at this time nothing here can access the problem IP 2a03:2880:f082:112:face:b00c:0:1823 aka edge-video6-shv-02-ord5.fbcdn.net unless it's connected via Hughesnet. Connect through Verizon and the page cannot be loaded. This makes it look like it's something suspiciously particular to the Hughes network.