Ultimately the internet is a lawless extremely low trust place, because it isn't limited by borders, so there is no effective law enforcement over a significant fraction of the people on it. Hosting providers bear a fair bit of the brunt of this because they're a staging ground for doing actually evil things.
I want to work with high trust places. I don't want an IP address that was just being used to hack people. I don't want to have to jump through hoops that verify I'm not doing evil things before doing things. I want to be offered things that can't be offered to people who are abusing trust, like generous free trials.
Verifying I'm an actual person in a place where they can pursue me through a functional legal system and functional law enforcement agencies is a step that allows the trust level to be stepped up slightly from "literally none". That's a good thing IMHO.
And I already have no privacy when I'm paying with a credit card under my real name. There's no actual cost here to me.
That said, I'd be very careful I was actually sending that information to a reputable hosting company, because the internet is a lawless place and there are definitely people who would try and pretend to be your hosting company.
Ultimately the internet is a lawless extremely low trust place, because it isn't limited by borders, so there is no effective law enforcement over a significant fraction of the people on it. Hosting providers bear a fair bit of the brunt of this because they're a staging ground for doing actually evil things.
I want to work with high trust places. I don't want an IP address that was just being used to hack people. I don't want to have to jump through hoops that verify I'm not doing evil things before doing things. I want to be offered things that can't be offered to people who are abusing trust, like generous free trials.
Verifying I'm an actual person in a place where they can pursue me through a functional legal system and functional law enforcement agencies is a step that allows the trust level to be stepped up slightly from "literally none". That's a good thing IMHO.
And I already have no privacy when I'm paying with a credit card under my real name. There's no actual cost here to me.
That said, I'd be very careful I was actually sending that information to a reputable hosting company, because the internet is a lawless place and there are definitely people who would try and pretend to be your hosting company.