> I know this may seem like moving goalposts, but I forgot to mention another point here, which is that I'm perfectly happy with allowing my customers to reach me by mail and they actually can reach me that way. What I'm much less okay with is someone knowing where my family and I sleep.

> I have a mail forwarding service so that I don't have to give out my home address. If you send me mail to that address, I will see it!

In this case you have an address where people can reach you. I have no problem doing things this way. And even if you were a knobhead who only did that to fulfil the regulations and ignored any actual mail going to that address, being able to send mail there, have it go in a black hole, and then be able to go to whatever consumer protection agency and tell them 'I mailed them a letter and they never responded' has value in and of itself for the consumer.

> It's another cost and hassle to have to set this up just to avoid the rare but possible doxxing situation that comes along with putting things out in public. The other part of this is that big corporations are obviously much better equipped to handle this scenario and they don't represent a single person's reputation or literal home in the same way.

> I realize that addresses aren't really private but you never know what can happen. Maybe my app blows up and goes viral, there's some kind of controversy that gets out of my control via the media or something like that, and now my App Store listing for my viral app has my home address and a bunch of people on the Internet start sending me poop in the mail.

Fair point that it's a hassle for you as an individual. I get that you don't want to be doxxed. In an ideal world the people doxxing you would be prosecuted for doing that, but that's probably a big ask if you're in the US, at least from what I can tell. In Europe from what I can tell, while it's not a non-issue, it usually doesn't get worse than verbal abuse and people being angry on the internet, and while nobody deserves death threats, at least it's just words and not, ya know, letter bombs or swatting. Even relatively 'minor' offences caused by going viral, like stalking, are prosecuted and dealt with from what I can tell (exceptions obviously exist in both directions).

> Now, all of this may be more of the fault of EU regulations and that's also perfectly fine but it makes me wonder a little bit if there can't be some kind of solution that is compliant but a little friendlier to small/solo businesses? If it's not possible I can definitely accept that.

I'm not sure what can be done beyond loosing the restrictions on the little guy, but I'm not sure if there's much political will for that (and don't get me wrong when I say this, but also, good reason). If there's a reasonable solution that upholds consumer protections and rights, I'm open for it.