I think their heart is in the right place but they didn’t think it through. The way I understand virtue signalling, it needs to include intentional deception.

This right here. For example I’m rolling my eyes at people replacing their Kindles posthaste now. If it still works, it’s a great piece of hardware and replacing it now for the sake of changing the brand only creates more waste. A Kindle one already owns is more green and anti-capitalistic than whatever replacement one might get. It’s borderline virtue signalling.

What color coding do you mean?

Or frontdoor checkbox for that matter, given that it’s the literal device owner that takes the action tripping their “security” tripwire.

Consumers? Probably no. Geeks and hackers? Damn yes!

Which features do you mean? Not disagreeing with you, I’m just curious.

It would be just as (un)popular as the Steam Machines if it wasn’t for Proton, that’s my whole point.

They already tried that in the Steam Machines era. It clearly wasn’t working.

How many email accounts do you have? It might be a huge factor. I have about 7 accounts I need to check regularly and I cannot imagine doing it manually for each. I can see it working for one or maybe two though.