Windows Defender no longer asking for connection permissions. even after reset to default settings.

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I'm certain that at one point Windows behaved in a way that whenever an application that utilizes Internet attempted to access Internet, windows would prompt the user to allow or deny.This was a great way to intuitively teach the firewall what to block and what to allow without needing to create and manage rules manually.This feature seems to either have gone away or gotten broken on my PC.New installs of programs do not ask for permissions anymore.I tried to reset the Windows Defender to default settings expecting it to now re-prompt me for any new program that would need access, but that did

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