Worth noting that paying for a license for software doesn’t stop it being spying malware either. In fact the pirate versions often take out the spying and the reporting-to-homebase that proprietary software does.

The photoshop that phones home to check a license is arguably more malicious than the pirate version that has been cracked so it doesn’t do that.

Because I’m never logged into Google and use a VPN their search-engine just puts me into infinite captcha loop anyway now. Can’t even use Google if I want to. They’ve basically banned anonymous use.

This code will only ever be installed on my machines by force against my will.

No benefit to any users at all, all benefit only to Google and their Advertisers.