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Win10: Cannot ping localhost / Windows Smart Screen does not work

I have an odd problem - I am unable to ping localhost. It just hangs until eventually dies with an error, or returns results. It seems that there is a huge delay in DNS lookup: In addition to that ...
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No Internet/Connection Timeout in Windows 10 UWP apps (Edge, Store, Mail) when proxy to localhost is enabled

Here's the problem: Windows 10 firewall seems to be hardcoded to block access from managed (UWP) apps to the localhost. No matter what firewall exception I add, as soon as I enable the proxy to any ...
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