I know that is the reason. I strongly disagree in that qualifying as a necessary thing to do. If that was accepted as necessary data collection, GDPR wouldn't

I know that is the reason. I strongly disagree in that qualifying as a necessary thing to do. If that was accepted as necessary data collection, GDPR wouldn't have made any fuss whatsoever: big techs would keep collecting all the data they wanted because "it is necessary to reduce the chance that we won't earn buckets of money".