Thank you for this informative but nice and happy article.

The best attitude to deal with such of silly problems is just solve it and work it out !!

Privacy is important and it's essential to be aware what is the software that monitors the activity - and how such similar systems can exists - nobody like to be spied ... well almost nobody..

Even if you don't care about privacy - like @josephd - you better pay attention because your credit card or your bitcoin password could be the next target on hacker's list !!