I surely wouldn't call Intel a "GPU driver company" (like how I'd call American Megatrends a BIOS/Firmware company), but rather a Processor company that is also making drivers (but that is neither here nor there).
This is still so weird of them (not weird in the sense I wouldn't put it past them, but weird in a sense that someone even had the idea), even if they make it optional. Like, I don't care if you want to use that information to try to make better drivers by knowing which sites break the GPU, I will report that to you if I feel so inclined to it.
I'd understand if it were "We wanna know what programs are using hardware acceleration", but it's not limited to that...
I never had a goal to reduce Intel to a single role in today's world. Instead:
For a company Y, where Y produces GPU driver, I can't believe there's a plausible explanation for Y to globally collect information about the web sites visited by all users in order to improve the GPU driver code.
This is still so weird of them (not weird in the sense I wouldn't put it past them, but weird in a sense that someone even had the idea), even if they make it optional. Like, I don't care if you want to use that information to try to make better drivers by knowing which sites break the GPU, I will report that to you if I feel so inclined to it.
I'd understand if it were "We wanna know what programs are using hardware acceleration", but it's not limited to that...