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Except the absolutely valid (I don't not necessarily agree but it's fair) criticism about mitm and other similar stuff, cloudflare actually does a lot of good stuff.

In general they stand their ground against companies who try to force them to do stuff like this.

They are also seemingly involved in developing and finding ways to make the internet a more secure place, like with encrypted client hello. And encrypted DNS.

Yes of course but recording a private conversation has been legal before and I couldn't find any good indications that it has changed under the GDPR.

The law essentially says that it's illegal to record or listen to private conversations which you aren't a part of using technical instruments.

So it's legal to press your ear against a wall but it's illegal to use any tech to listen/record to anything.

Yeah it varies. In my country you only need to participate in the conversation to be allowed to record it.

You can also film or photograph anyone you feel like in public as long as they aren't in a place where privacy is expected like a bathroom or something like that. In general you can record and upload all day long.

The law is much stricter on surveillance cameras.

Keep in mind that 4 years ago was COVID times when everything was shit.

I can't recall false positives being a huge issue for me, but it's very late at night so my memory might be foggy.

I honestly don't use it a lot because I have a gesture which enables me to swipe down on the home screen to bring down the notifications and I'm just so used to doing that. Personally I have to adjust my grip to use the back tap feature, so it's slightly inconvenient.

Having the flashlight on the feature is something that I would like but unfortunately it's just somewhat embarrassing to walk around with the flashlight turned on and false positives are a problem here.

With the notification shade false positives don't really matter.

On my pixel 6A you can bring down the notifications but double tapping the back of the phone, which is pretty neat.

No, pretty much everyone agrees with you. It's like posting on unpopular opinions: "I think Hitler was a bad person"

I'm not saying that AI will take over the world but people's fear doesn't come from current AI. It comes from the fact that AI improved massively in just a few years and if it continues to do that, it might become very advanced fairly soon.

I started at the company during the summer so I haven't been around long but my colleague has worked there for over 10 years and my former colleague worked there for 20 years. So I think that they are probably right.

The software is also something from the past that not a lot of people use anymore. Unfortunately I can't say what it is because people could figure out where I work very easily if I did, I believe it's from the 80s. My company is also the company that has used this kind of system for the longest time in the world.

Fun fact: I just searched up the software/system and I found out on Wikipedia that another company in the same industry had to reverse engineer and replace the entire system because it was just too old, and hard to maintain.

With that said, some of the servers the software uses runs at least on 2012 and 2016. I haven't checked but if it's a VM, I should absolutely just try and replace it and see what happens.

They don't expect home users to pay. Remember that they often refuse to even reboot their computers to receive security updates.

Extended support is pretty much intended exclusively for enterprises.

The biggest danger isn't viruses sneaking their way in, it's from the web browser and email client.