[starsinspace]

It's weird how perception on these things has shifted. So many practices are "normal" today which used to be clearly labeled "spyware" only 15 years ago. They successfully rebranded spyware, now it's called "telemetry", or similar.

Anyone remember the huge privacy-related outrage when Windows XP came out, because it forced users to do challenge-response activation? How times have changed...

[Avamander]

It might just be that all those people have switched to free software and aren't being vocal because of that?