Minecraft will not stop trying to contact sentry.io, even when playing offline (HUGE LOG FILES)

Minecraft launcher takes almost 30 seconds to acknowledge that there is no internet. Then, after requiring an attempt at signing it, it takes another two full minutes before it allows you to play offline.

 

Even then, the application is spamming requests to sentry.io non-stop. The attempted connections should stop once it is established there is no internet. I've also discovered it's causing huge "launcher_log.txt" files. See my comment below.