Lately I've been noticing a lag on load on any of my sites that runs Adsense. I don't choose to run Google Analytics, but, oddly enough, when I look at the status bar in the bottom of Firefox, that's what is choking the load.

Is Google running GOOGLE ANALYTICS on my sites without my say-so? Is this something they sneaked into the TOS?

I don't really want Google knowing THAT MUCH about my business, if so.

Has anyone else noticed this? How do YOU feel about this?