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You're not being forced at all.

• freehunter 8y ago
  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.
  • quakenul 8y ago
    Interesting perspective!
  • vsl 8y ago
    Wow, what an incredibly entitled attitude. People like this are why we can't have nice things. For a creator, it's better to just not bother than to deal with jerks who accuse them as scam for giving something out, and the world is worse for it.