Same. It should be illegal for them to be forcing this shit on us. At least I only have to endure it on my work pc. No windows on personal devices

it's sad, pathetic, and stupid that one has to download a potentially dangerous hack to do something so basic.

I think we live in a time period where seizing/searching phones doesn't need the physical device to be present. They just have to ask Google and Meta to do it for them. Different than literally combing through the memory on the device, but not much. It's why FOSS and selfhosting matters so much. What Google and Meta don't have, they can't just take. That being said I would bring a burner if I went to the US. Lord knows I have said more than my fair share of critical things about the US government lol

Customers aren't happy when the call in! Also https://www.pcworld.com/article/2617767/hp-forced-callers-to-wait-15-minutes-before-connecting-to-support-staff.html

It's not the "latest" Pixel generations, devices as old as the Pixel 4 receive extended support (although it's obviously not recommended) and that's mostly because Google does not support them. This will be greatly improved moving forward, since Google has promised much longer update cycles for new devices.