Ben,
Yes requests are being made, even though all Piriform products are uninstalled Here is an imgur link to the wireshark'd traffic https://imgur.com/a/BzdMm5P
Doing more research, disabling Background Intelligent Transfer Service, stops this from happening. Some job from ccleaner is stuck in BITS is my guess right now
More research. Finding the below powershell command. Feel confident I found the problem. Note we DONT HAVE AVAST/AVG installed
PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-BitsTransfer -AllUsers
JobId DisplayName TransferTy
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