I’m sorry, did you just say “mute the ads”? Damn, america really is in the terminal stages of late stage capitalism

In the end it depends on your risk profile and adversary model. Usually it’s not a good idea though. Why not have an SSH tunnel to the network/machine and use port forwarding to forward the RDP connection? Or why not use SSH for remote access, period?

As I said “WITHOUT” any custom/special map. I can enter my home address as is and the search / navigation works as expected - same as it would for gmaps, apple maps, …

Works fine in Germany without any Special Maps

Might be for time synchronization in order to not have to rely on a public NTP server.