Sure, I live in the UK and I live in constant fear of the mighty US drone army. Our laws (a great deal of which predate the existence of the US) have no meaning.
"Nothing stopping the developer from paying out to users as well" - this is absolutely ridiculous; of course a developer with absolutely no payment infrastructure is going to start relaying these ill-gotten gains back to users. It just doesn't work like that.
To be a little clearer, I'm only completely against this when it's enabled within an extension by default; therefore crawling the web without the end users' knowledge.
If it's something you can enable, then it isn't so bad. This should ultimately be a choice that the user makes.
I absolutely love this! I've just created an account and have sent an invite to my co-founder & designer to sign up!
Hopefully we'll be using this for our day-to-day tasks - it seems like a much nicer solution to finding out what we're working on than checking in with each other throughout the day on Skype...
To me, this just seems a little silly. I can't imagine how difficult it will be to maintain a persistent, user-friendly account with this method. An emailed link every time a user wants to log in? Just plain silly.
Passwords are still widely used, and for good reason. I partially accept your point of passwords not being very secure, but why not just spend some time implementing a 2FA login method, instead of this?
We're genuinely quite friendly people, us hackers - we should make you feel welcome :)
Have a beer or two with some of the guys and walk around to see what people are working on - most people will be more than happy to show you their hack!