Well, if you have problems with it use a different miner. Don’t steal.
As an aside, I’ve not experienced the issue you describe and have run miners for many weeks at a time.
So you mean actually free fee option still got some fees hidden.
Ive seen the connections you are talking about, been flagged in my firewall as well as they stay open. But I am not seeing an issue if I let my rigs run long term. Is the a Windows issue? I run Linux.