Oh, I thought this was people complaining about having to share their address with Apple and was like “that’s bs just do that, why wasn’t it required already”.

Oh, I thought this was people complaining about having to share their address with Apple and was like “that’s bs just do that, why wasn’t it required already”. I didn’t realize that they meant “share with the public on the store”. That seems pretty awful (I understand the intent, but I think such a law is geared towards actual businesses rather than hobby/side gig level devs). I think this is one of those things where having a mechanism to directly contact the developer does make sense (as this is clearly intended as a mechanism to serve legal docs so often requires physical address), but given for many people this is their home address not a business address that seems super unsafe. I don’t know what the PO Box situation is like in the EU either, but I know in some places in the US there’s a waiting list. To me I think that maybe the safer solution here would be for the appropriate EU agency to allow smaller devs to register their home address and have that act as an intermediary to avoid just have their home address being public, while also having people be sure that there is a real and accurate contact address. On the other hand I would have assumed that was covered by standard business registration?