Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers
by freehunter on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:55AM
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GDPR would strongly disagree with you. Your personal information is not a currency and you should never be forced to part with in in exchange for goods and services. If you're worth dollars, you should be paying dollars.
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Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers
by fiatjaf on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @11:17AM
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You're not being forced at all.
Re:How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers
by freehunter on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @11:55AM
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According to GDPR you are. If your personal information is not required (from a technical standpoint) in order to use the service, you're not allowed to block access to the service if the user refuses to give you their personal information. That particular law is quite clear that requiring someone to give you their email address in exchange for digital goods that do not need your email address in order to function (like a PDF) is in violation.
GDPR may not apply depending on what jurisdiction this site falls under, but it sets the expectation for all digital goods anywhere in the world. If you're demanding someone's personal information as a currency rather than as a requirement, that is a scam.
If you want to make money, charge money. If you're not trying to make money, there's no need to require my email address in exchange for the product.