Why would you ever do such a thing on a device controlled by your employer?
I guess there's a whole generation of devs who don't remember the Microsoft antitrust trial, and haven't learned the "anything you do at work may come out in discovery" lesson.
It is in fact common to do personal things on work PCs.
The senior manager spending 5 days visiting that foreign office is logging into his personal netflix account, and video calling his wife and kids. He ain't carrying a second laptop to do it.
That middle manager, with a report who needs a widget delivered tomorrow, and purchasing aren't fast enough to get the order in? He's logging into his personal account and paying with his personal card, then making an expense claim.
That in-office worker wearing headphones? Good chance he's logged into his personal music streaming account. Maybe he uses youtube music, so he's logged into his entire personal google account too.
And the sales guy who's constantly stuck in hotels for business travel? Oh boy you don't want to look his 11pm web browsing.
I don't even like doing stuff like this on my phone.
You mean every person in the world who doesn't actively work on the stuff doing the tracking? This isn't selection bias, selection bias is thinking those are the abnormals.
There are other reasons one might reasonably object to keystroke tracking, of course.
Okay, this is America so fair enough. We can’t reasonably generalize in this context.
Do they go to Apple Store and login it to their personal account on the showcase iphone and yell at the genius employees?
So, yeah, people do absolutely braindead shit with their company-furnished equipment. It's fucking mind-boggling.
Everyone on the planet is saying this. Every new hire orientation likely states this.