So long as it is anonymous, and is intended to provide a useful service (i.e. notifying the user of updates), I don't see a problem with this feature, or with using the data from it to estimate how many instances are running in the wild. We measure HTTP traffic on the update servers to estimate how many Ubuntu systems are running as well.
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