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by pmoriarty 3373 days ago
Your "free" tier isn't really free, then. As payment, you're asking for the sacrifice of your users' privacy.

Some users may value your service so much or their privacy so little that they may pay up, but for the rest of us it's back to the disposable email arms race.

PS: Kudos for being open and considerate enough to defend an unpopular position on here, though it's ironic that you did so using a disposable HN account.

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> Your "free" tier isn't really free, then. As payment, you're asking for the sacrifice of your users' privacy.

Is that what asking for an email to sign in to create an account to use a service that probably doesn't work well without having an account is now, invasion of privacy?

Where do we put our foots down and stop saying that everything a SaaS does is sacrificing the user's privacy... Soon we're gonna start seeing "Whoa, asking them to pay and input their credit card? You're asking for the sacrifice of your user's privacy."