It harms everyone because it's one more actor trying to make collection of data look normal, as can be seem from the multiple misguided posts wondering why this

It harms everyone because it's one more actor trying to make collection of data look normal, as can be seem from the multiple misguided posts wondering why this is a problem. It's not normal that software is sending data to some server somwhere by itself by default. Devs used to have some decency and left this opt-in. They see there's little push-back and they're making it opt-out. Almost all mobile apps and a significant number of desktop apps have analytics now.