The SSID thing may be suspicious, but everything else? Websites track those same metrics. Heck HN has, at a fair rate, links to articles encouraging developers

The SSID thing may be suspicious, but everything else? Websites track those same metrics. Heck HN has, at a fair rate, links to articles encouraging developers and founders to gather analytics. None of those functions even should suspicious, unless one fears the word "global" (I mean globals are evil but this is taking fear a bit too far! ;) The article title is horrible link bait, and even the article admits "well nothing was really found."