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The tradeoff is security and privacy. Important things. If you click the eye icon next to a password, or paste a secret to an env var you are now exploitable. If you have something you want to keep private or shred this is another place to delete (or forget to do so). So there are plenty of anti-benefits to this superpower.

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I understand. Nobody* will care.

People already have traded privacy and a comprehensive personality profile for silly streams of video, photos and text on social media for the past 20 years. Imagine what happens, when you get something immensely useful out of it.

Today, nobody will work with you, if you are unable to manage E-Mail. In the future, nobody will work with you, if you can't properly use the time information dimension that this technology enables. You will simply look demented by comparison.

If that is the case then like anything else let’s make it, well… good. And that includes making it safe, secure and privacy focused.

A good delineation is your work PC will be spied on (assume anyone in the org can see what you are doing, even before this tech).

Opting out of it on personal devices is fine. You wont look like an idiot or be refused work I am sure.

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