Please excuse the format of this reply, but this analogy is the best way I can think of to offer a different perspective to the one you are expressing: "If you

Please excuse the format of this reply, but this analogy is the best way I can think of to offer a different perspective to the one you are expressing: "If you feel strongly about human rights violations in a democratic country.... you know maybe actually run for elected office and not just wine about it? This is why people stop becoming political candidates, these type of people with their weird feeling of entitlement exercising their right to free speech." To be clear, my point isn't that we should solve all data collection problems with legislation (although that might be beneficial in some cases) or that automatically checking for software updates is necessarily a human rights violation. My point is that it's unreasonable to expect everyone who cares about any feature request to write software to satisfy their needs, especially if the upstream developers would refuse their patches. It's even more unreasonable to demand that people who care about certain issues never try to raise awareness of those issues with other people who might be affected or might be able to do something about the problem.