GPDR: Humanity - is that all ?

[mevla]

Is the browser I use blocking/incompatible or is this all that is shown/happens, even after clicking the button ?

humanity.jpg

[Urs]

Hmmm... there should be a ReCaptcha there... not sure what's needed for that

[#rob]

Probably just an aggressive script blocker or a "private tab" or something like that.
The ReCaptcha is definitely there (in general).

[mevla]

OK, got it. The captcha is provided by google (google.com., gstatic.com).

Yes, I have google blocked by default

[nevis]

The ReCaptcha is definitely there (in general).

Can confirm that.

[phreaque]

Few websites offering nice discounts for re-subscription, this is a good thing
Plugin boutique & Loopmasters are ones who implement this. Nice move.

[mevla]

I'll take a discount on the upcoming color-coded delay. Hey, I had to enable google !

[Urs]

Few websites offering nice discounts for re-subscription, this is a good thing
Plugin boutique & Loopmasters are ones who implement this. Nice move.

We are considering it, but there isn't a reason to do this straight away. We first want to see what the damage is and then decide what to do. We can still do whatever in a month or two.

The newsletter accounts for about 10% of our annual revenue. That's 2 peep's salaries paid for. We estimate that between 10% and 20% come back, saving about 4%-6% of that revenue ("good subscribers"). We'll be fine with that. But if it gets a lot worse, we'll be forced to run an incentive just to keep jobs. We will see after we send out the next newsletter where we'll have Satin NKS and maybe a soundset or two.

[Urs]

(I personally think GDPR is a good thing. It certainly opened my eyes about what companies should do or shouldn't. I'm also aware that the cost of it is possibly very high. We spent a lot on this, especially in infrastructure changes... a "sale" is the least of my concerns with it. We might make a video or something where we explain what we did, and why)

[phreaque]

Few websites offering nice discounts for re-subscription, this is a good thing
Plugin boutique & Loopmasters are ones who implement this. Nice move.

We are considering it, but there isn't a reason to do this straight away. We first want to see what the damage is and then decide what to do. We can still do whatever in a month or two.

The newsletter accounts for about 10% of our annual revenue. That's 2 peep's salaries paid for. We estimate that between 10% and 20% come back, saving about 4%-6% of that revenue ("good subscribers"). We'll be fine with that. But if it gets a lot worse, we'll be forced to run an incentive just to keep jobs. We will see after we send out the next newsletter where we'll have Satin NKS and maybe a soundset or two.

Understood, and surely we care about the business and we want U-He to stay successful.
How about starting some plans like:
1. Getting more people involved (crowd sourcing) by letting people submitting presets to the current U-He VSTs, and the one with good feedback would get an NFR license for example.
2. Dealing with Computer Music again, also seems a good idea.
3. Collaboration with other devs.to come up with new varieties of VSTs like arpeggiators, clip launchers, chorders, bridges, etc. You know that current DAWs lack certain features, they are not the same.
4. Making exclusive native plugin pack to a certain DAW.
5. Even it would be a great idea to study the possibility of making H/W hosts or synths, guys like CME Pro, Doepfer, would like to collab, that would increase their sales for sure.

[mevla]

1. Getting more people involved (crowd sourcing) by letting people submitting presets to the current U-He VSTs, and the one with good feedback would get an NFR license for example.

Using an Online tab of the preset browser so that users can browse the contributions directly from the synth/plugin while creating within a DAW session and import locally the presets they like. An import could add a point to a preset, the total points for each preset being shown while browsing, if one wants to show popularity.

[phreaque]

1. Getting more people involved (crowd sourcing) by letting people submitting presets to the current U-He VSTs, and the one with good feedback would get an NFR license for example.

Using an Online tab of the preset browser so that users can browse the contributions directly from the synth/plugin while creating within a DAW session and import locally the presets they like. An import could add a point to a preset, the total points for each preset being shown while browsing, if one wants to show popularity.

Good idea, and this feature will serve as preset copyright protection tool as well.

[elxsound]

I actually think u-he will get a decent share of their newsletter subscribers back (without any sales/incentives).

I'm actually having trouble keeping track of all the companies I need to re-subscribe to, and there's a couple I just don't mind seeing go away, but those ones weren't getting my money again no matter what was on offer.

I like GPDR, but just wish that would come to states too.

[Kypresso]

(I personally think GDPR is a good thing. It certainly opened my eyes about what companies should do or shouldn't. I'm also aware that the cost of it is possibly very high. We spent a lot on this, especially in infrastructure changes... a "sale" is the least of my concerns with it. We might make a video or something where we explain what we did, and why)

I would agree that the GDPR has certainly opened my eyes about how my data is handled.

The one troubling thing that has emerged from all the emails asking me to resubscribe has been how centralized data collection has become. You, like many other companies i receive email from, are using mailchimp which is an american company and my data is exported to the usa where it is subject to the laws of the usa.

The collection of my email addresses and what i am interested in, is now all under the control of one company which is subject to laws that i have no control over and which laws have no interest in my privacy AT ALL.

I have therefore decided not to resubscribe to any company which is willing to effectively bypass the strong privacy rights that GDPR gives and to export my information to a country which is hostile to the idea of personal privacy rights.

[Urs]

Well, in defense of MailChimp, they are certified to the ePrivacy directive and we have a GDPR-compliant data processing contract with them. They can not do much with the data other than, say, a statistical analysis.

And of course, you can always set up an email at GMX or the likes which you forward to your actual email address should you be concerned about that kind of issue.