Perhaps they meant locally installed software.

And EU has tried making sites classify and ask for permission for cookie storage.

And maybe mixpanel and Google and cross site tracking should be opt-in for users.

And wouldn't that be a terrible shame.

But these are two very different scenarios though. When I use a website I'm actively interacting with that website. I want something from their web servers.

When I'm using an Nvidia graphics card I'm not actively looking to use their web services. I want the graphics card that I bought to work and that's it. The graphics card doesn't improve as a device by connecting to the internet.

But metrics could help nvidia fix issues and add features in the next driver update?

I'm mostly playing devil's advocate here, what I truly think is that all monitoring and analytics should require user approval a bit like cookies. E.g.: you visit a website and it would ask for permission to send monitoring data to listed sites.