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I think you are truly in a minority if you'd rather take a survey than have the data collected automatically. There has to be a sane middle ground.

Data collected by a neutral third party without conflicting interests pushing for creative monetization opportunities that's responsible for sufficient annonymisation/aggregation before releasing the data?

There is mining for data and there is mining for data.

Monitoring which features I use? Opt in.

Monitoring what I do? Uninstall if possible.

You can always refrain to use their technology. There is plenty green grass in the neighboring fields.