[devonin]

I'll take it that you're telling me it's perfectly acceptable to accept defeat and not waste your time worrying about it. lol

If you don't do anything illegal, and are even remotely careful to have different passwords for each of the 3 or 4 most vital things you have passwords for, I don't really see a purpose to worrying about whether programs you use are gathering info about you.

100% of them are, and you've agreed explicitly to 100% of them by clicking that "I agree" button at the bottom of all that text you didn't read.

If you don't accept a ToS or a EULA, you can't use the thing you want to use. So I say "Am I more paranoid about what they might do with information they could gather from this program than I am interested in using this program?" and the answer is always no.