Totally agree. It's better to frame it in terms of "Nvidia tracks every porn site you visit and what you do there" or "company x knows everything you buy online and sells it to anyone who can pay".
Treating privacy in the abstract is how you help people meaningfully resist it. In the literal sense, we can do very little to ensure our privacy on consumer hardware.
Poison the data wells to such an extent that data becomes unuseful. For hardware drivers, submitting plausible or random info may be a good start. For handset apps which send geolocation, developer mode which spoofs a city circle tour may be a good start.