Huge amount of traffic sent to 1e100.net when using chromedriver

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Hello,

We recently downloaded an application to track a problem we have in the bandwidth and found out that Chrome is sending a huge amount of data to 1e100.net. It sent 800MB during 30 minutes of Selenium webdriver running with chromedriver.exe. During a week, it sent around 160GB of data to that particular domain. We are not facing this problem as well when using different browsers/drivers. We also haven't seen this problem when using Chrome manually but only when using our selenium test cases.

As per research, we saw that this domain is used for Safe Browsing. I tried to disable it by passing the following attributes to chromedriver but without luck

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","c:\\chromedriver.exe");

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("--disable-web-security");
options.addArguments("--allow-running-insecure-content");
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);

We are using the lastest version of chromedriver available (23rd of December 2016). How can I stop Chrome/driver of sending data to that domain? Is there any way to disable it?

Any help is highly appreciated.