If spyware is a continuum from onerous to innocuous, then at the moment Canonical's string sending/sharing is somewhere near the innocuous end of the line. But it's still within the continuum.
By excusing it as innocuous and (for now) flippable, we shorten the line.
And then shorten the line again for the next thing that finds itself happily closer to the innocuous end of the line.
If spyware is a continuum from onerous to innocuous, then at the moment Canonical's string sending/sharing is somewhere near the innocuous end of the line. But it's still within the continuum.
By excusing it as innocuous and (for now) flippable, we shorten the line.
And then shorten the line again for the next thing that finds itself happily closer to the innocuous end of the line.
And again.