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It’d be fine if the charity made it an option to donate an additional amount if you wanted your sequence provided to you, to cover their cost to fulfill the request (negating the need to fulfill a GDPR request). Otherwise, it’s just poor form and not to be emulated.

Because one can does not necessarily mean one should.

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I do, and I donate to these charities because it's a cause quite close to my heart.

At present it's clearly not scalable to be sending GDPR requests one person at a time. I think perhaps if this kind of incentive brings more people to sign up than traditional donor recruitment drives (which is often much more than handling a request for data!) then these charities will provide easier, more scalable ways to access this data :)

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