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> But as a customer, I'd deliberately avoid Paddle to keep my privacy and avoid spam

You make it seems like, this is an issue. But every service that you use today has your email, Amazon, your ISP, Apple, .. everyone.

If you don't want to receive email, use a secondary email to subscribe to services and you will not be annoyed with unsolicited emails

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Yeah, or we could just keep things exactly the way they are and not fuck with it because it's actually better for me as a consumer.

Paying 30 percent extra is not unilaterally better for the consumer.

It is if I get all the benefits of paying what that 30% covers.

Nope, to take a current exemple which many people loathe for one reason or another, even EPIC Games Store does not transfer your email to the seller by default, and the checkbox do to do so in checkout is left unchecked by default.

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