Speaking of DuPont, I have been seeing tons of attempted connections from DuPont IPs on my computer (along with Halliburton and Xerox) for the last several months. None of my online functionality is affected by blocking these. Are these companies now in the business of hosting ad servers? Or maybe Goog, AppIe, and Micro$oft are contracting out their mass data collection to third party players like these, to distance themselves from it and add some deniability.
Either way, I hope we soon get more awareness about all the machines connecting to our personal devices without our consent. While the internet can be a tool of empowerment for the common man, it has primarily been a wild-west free-for-all to the most powerful organizations in the world, so they can collect unlimited realtime information about everyone on the planet.