> That link you provided is a "conspiracy theory," even by the author's own admission.

"Conspiracy theory" is not the same as a crazy, crackhead theory. See: Endward Snowden.

Full quote from the article:

> Mind you, this is definitionally a conspiracy theory; please don’t let the connotations of that phrase bias you, but please feel free to read this (and everything else on the internet) as critically as you wish.

> and they fixed the cleartext transmission of hardware identifiers

Have you got any links for that?

> Are you expecting perfection here? Or are you just being argumentative?

I expect basic things people should expect from a company promoting themselves as respecting privacy. And I don't expect them to be much worse than GNU/Linux in that respect (but they definitely are).