I'm not a fan of bounty hunting but since 9th Jan I'm participating in bounty campaigns to experiment something and also to see if it worth giving the efforts. Though I haven't earned $1 yet.

There is an issue with bounty managers, they are just exposing participants email ids. In my opinion, it is not a right thing at all, it's just unacceptable.
I've pmed some managers to hide the column, some of them did and some of them not.

We all know peoples sales email ids / databases to feed their greed. Even we can see so many sellers in this forum, I've even reported so many of them.

But I have a question why it is necessary to provide email id to participate in a bounty campaign? Let's assume that they need it for news, updates, and promotions.
Then they can offer a newsletter campaign, whoever wants to join will join and others will skip if they desperately want to collect email ids of participants.
And if they still want to keep the traditional way then they can just hide the email id column from the spreadsheet, right?


Ps. I don't know if this issue has been discussed before, let me know I'll lock this thread.