[krotton]

No, it's not. Unless used very sparingly, it makes for a shitty user experience.

I'd risk a guess that the average user doesn't have any problem with aggregate, anonymized data being collected for statistical and debugging purposes. A lot of people here on HN do and they like to extrapolate that to the whole society, but it's a stretch.

[setquk]

The average user clicks through privacy agreements and contracts without looking. It's up to us to promote good behaviour by technology vendors rather than say I told you so later which is the current status quo.