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So far, not much other than being "too" content neutral for a lot of people. They have potential to be immensely horrible whenever they decide to engage in enshittification to maximize profits.
they're called crimeflare for a reason. besides being a government goldmine having access to everyone's encrypted TLS traffic, they selectively enforce censorship in unethical ways.
why block kiwifarms when you still allow hosting monkey torture sites? or sites for sourcing bathtub HRT secretly sent to minors? they shouldn't be policing the internet in the first place. this is dangerously close to invalidating Section 230 protections as well.
there's so many more reasons it's not even funny.
Apparently they also strip encryption off and see everything, too.
They see everything because they have to for some of the services they offer which gives them a huge potential to do terrible things that they have not actually pursued yet to date, hence the "so far" in my comment.
No terrible visible things, at least. God knows how much data they've hoovered up.
True. But that just falls back on the "not yet" part of things. They're likely sitting on a massively valuable pile of user data and when they get greedy enough it's going to be ugly.