A more invasive version of it isn't coming and won't happen. This is only an artifact of link URL referrals and Google Analytics. Text only venting could take place just fine. And nonpaid users won't have Google Analytics, either, so the majority of people won't know when they're linked to, as I don't think the majority of people will pay. Of course, if people make links in the comments of your posts, then you might be back in the same boat, but.

In any case, I definitely wanted to start having this kind of discussion with people and get this out into the open before Google Analytics was enabled, so people won't be surprised or feel like they were submarined.

Overall, this is a good feature for a lot of our userbase. People making creative content love to know there is an audience watching, and giving paid accounts Google Analytics helps with that. It just has this one particular social caveat.