The default setting is my issue. Some folks don't care - some might even think this is 'cool' - but this junk should be something a person should enable, not the normal. I'd not have know how to turn it off were it not for the screen shot above.
If going into the options for disabling/enabling things is the barrier that some ppl can't pass, it was decided that all features will be enabled by default. (and to rise awareness about them)