promotedcontentd continuously crashes when iadsdk.apple.com is DNS blocked

I'm running Xcode 14.3.1 (macOS 13.4.1). When I go to use Content View an error message saying 'promotedcontentd quit unexpectedly' spams my screen. Pressing "Ignore" or "Report" just causes the message to reappear a short time later. Digging around in my DNS-level content blocker shows iadsdk.apple.com being blocked, with the error message appearing shortly after a request gets blocked. Why is this? What does this domain do?

Same issue with the Apple SwiftUI AboutMe example, also on macOS 13.4.1 Intel with Xcode 14.3.1.

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes/iOS.simruntime/Contents/Resources/RuntimeRoot/usr/libexec/promotedcontentd

Is crashing with EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)

And I'm not (intentionally) blocking that iadsdk.apple.com domain.

A traceroute to the iadsdk.apple.com host is not working, too. Seems a routing issue lurks somewhere. Gets to the edge of my ISP's network and ICMP timeouts with 200+ ms delays.

Mostly for grins, I've added an A record into local DNS for iadsdk.apple.com zone and host (to 127.0.0.1, 5 minute TTL), just to see if that reduces the crashing. So far, I'm not seeing the repeating crashes.

I have the same issue, how can we fix that?

promotedcontentd continuously crashes when iadsdk.apple.com is DNS blocked
 
 
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