IANAL so please don’t take my word for it. But if I understood it correctly, this is indeed legal. You don’t have to offer your stuff for free. And as long as you let the user decide if they want to pay with money or with data, it’s legal. The important part is, that the user needs to give consent, which is the case here. Not talking about the morality of it though.

I need to look it up again, but I read about a study that showed that the results improve if you tell the AI that your job depends on it or similar drastic things. It’s kinda weird.

I’d hope so too, but as there are so few platforms offering proper support for hardware keys, I wouldn’t hold my breath for it.

What you call “much smaller mini edition” is still more extensive and thorough than 99% of posts on this platform :D and I really enjoy and appreciate it!

Thank you again for this high quality post! It’s always a pleasure to read.

I’m happy that GOG finally added proper F2A, though I’m a little sad that they didn’t implement FIDO U2F. It’s not only way more convenient to just use a hardware token as a second factor, but if my knowledge is correct, it’s also more secure.

They dropped the Tidal integration and I’m still heartbroken. It was the best setup for music discovery. Haven’t found a replacement yet.