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Honestly this might be useful to the home user but everyone is right to be skeptical. The bigger value for the software is corporate surveillance. They will be able to see exactly how much time WFH workers are actually working and will probably want it for exfiltration prevention. The target user might not be able to avoid using it no matter what.
It's 1000%going to be used for corporate surveillance.
Features to do this from other vendors are already in use.
I'm glad people are starting to care about digital privacy even after three decades of people like me being annoying