There is a decades-long study by Tashkin et al., not being able to find that smoking cannabis is significantly harmful. I am on my phone so don't have it at hand.
To be fair, people having unhealthy lifestyle - especially those drinking are feeling terrible all the time - may just think this is how healthy person should feel and miss any symptoms of the potential disease.
You may assume that would happen, but unless you really have a thing to show off, you'll keep a similar lifestyle and just watch your savings account growing. I know very few people who permanently changed their behaviour after a sudden change in their earnings. This is of course just anecdotal evidence.
But I am clearly not talking about lotto-winners, but someone who gets 2x salary, who may behave weird first couple of months and then becomes "normal". I fully agree about the lotto winners though. I had witnessed it actually as my school friend's parents won. For lack of a better description - they have become like animals with unlimited money, but money ended quickly though.
This is the environment governments create and also proves it is in human nature. It would be like banning sex and then be amazed how much STD are around.
Likely somebody paid for it. EU is creating the law for big corporations, so it seems like one of those would like to copyright telemetry data and EU just amended it to please them.
What I was reading? It is easy to badmouth someone without knowing the context. It is not uncommon to end up with a flawed design if you find yourself in circumstances like short deadline, uncertain requirements, lack of resources, small user base, no QA and so on that are outside of the developer means to change.
I was looking at a couple of non technical friends browsing the Internet. Not one took time to read consent prompts, they just mindlessly click whatever takes the notice out of the way. GDPR is dangerous and doesn't fix anything.
