Great-grandparent OP was most accurate in that this crowd cares most about privacy regardless of what it is used for, and that it would have little utility outs

Great-grandparent OP was most accurate in that this crowd cares most about privacy regardless of what it is used for, and that it would have little utility outside of this crowd, but your dismissive response is as if you've been in a coma for 10 years. As grandparent OP said, in recent years this has moved waaaaay beyond theory territory and been shown time and time again that <Corporate Sector> + NSA + FBI + CIA + intelligence agencies around the world all employ different ways of collecting analytical data broadcast over the internet. NSA just taps the servers without telling anyone. FBI sends National Security Letters containing gag orders preventing companies from telling you that the federal government is now a data sharing partner. CIA just pays companies for it. FISA court issues secret rulings justifying the legality of it all. Whether that bothers you or not is up to you. Most people don't care. I usually don't. I wouldn't say "logic dictates this won't happen" when it is pretty much only the multi-national multi-billion dollar companies subject to this kind of tampering, and most incentivized to monetize the analytics by allowing these and unknown third parties in. To avoid the security exhaustion, some people would simply prefer their text editor not be "smart", which is a euphemism for internet connected.