It depends, the EU is owned by the banks instead of every corporation like America. If Deutsche Bank decides it is worth their while to implement this like capital one just did in the US, it is over and the European Parliament will immediately capitulate like they always do to the banks.

Hell, in central Europe like here in Belgium, banks (pushed by corpos like Bancontact) are literally taking away people’s ability to use cash by silently removing all cash accepting ATMs so business owners need to travel sometimes 30-60minutes every day if they want to deposit cash and the EU and Belgian governments are sucking off bank lobbyists instead of tackling it.

They are strict against big tech, which is why in the past year, big tech has moved to the #1 position of money spent bribing lobbying politicians, second to banks, because it works so well for the banks.

Probably not because legally nothing happened to them…

It all got “dismissed with prejudice” so they got off completely consequence-free at the end of 2025.

That means it is pretty much legal and free game to do it, at least in the shithole USA lol. Hence why everyone is now doing it. Capital one just made a browser clone that does the same thing too.

Probably will quickly come here to the EU too…

How useful is it if the data or equations aren’t good?

The VO2max estimation they use is based on heart rate vs Pace data correlation. It is directly correlated to heart rate sensor accuracy. As QualifiedScientist on YouTube has found with his statistical comparison testing vs a polar H10 chest strap, many, MANY watches are <90% accurate with heart rate. Fitbit also has a ton of barely-accurate devices.

The Garmin algorithm has actually been studied multiple times and has around 5-7% error

Apparently fitbit VO2max hasn’t been studied, but anecdotal data by people doing a lab test to compare give quite bad results. 4-49% error! That is pretty much useless. There are also claims that fitbit uses BMI to estimate it which adds even more error.

Fitbit’a implementation seems similar to the bullshit recovery indexes, stress levels, and 2-4 degrees of abstraction metrics…

It often doesn’t really. It misses a ton and fills in the gaps itself. It is aimilar with multitasking in that it is really just fast task switching and filling the gaps.

I maan, there are dedinitely people that specifically train to speed read or listen, but i would be interested to have people speed read/listen short novels or so and check for comprehension after the fact.