[millstone]

What is this fresh hell? If you buy a spatula on Amazon, would you accept "client-side analytics" on what you cook because "it's basically the only way to monitor it?" Or would you say that your spatula usage is nobody's business?

I love and happily pay for Spotify, but it is eye-opening that they send any data to Facebook. Well, shit.

[opportune]

If my spatula had as many failure modes as software, I would find it reasonable, sure.

[cycomanic]

Can you explain this argument? They are not adding the Facebook sdk to track failure.

In fact I would say that the incident we are discussing here shows that adding the sdk adds a failure mode.