His defense of the data tracking should be taken with a grain of salt, he plainly states that he was an employee of Apple at one time.
His Faq
http://caffeine.shugendo.org/about//.

  If you arent made aware of it, and able to turn it off - then it's intrusive.

Are you telling me that a this Reuters professional photographer has "Photoshop" skills so poor as to try and pawn off this VERY poor photo edit as the real thing? My God, he took the same puff of smoke and simply stamped it an extra 25 times on the photo. Absolutely unbelievable that anyone is that stupid, much less a professional.