In an ideal world, creators would accept that only 10% of their viewers would contribute to them monetarily
Agreed.
(through patreon or donations)
and then you lapse into using “patreon” as if it’s a generic noun!
Not your intention I know, but this kind of corporate capture of minds has to end somehow.
Yes yes, I know all that. The fact remains that a permanent IP associated with an individual is personally identifying information. Even the variety in browser requests counts as such according to the GDPR, and that is usually pooled with lots of other users. This is clearly a level above that. It’s why, for example, I would not use the VPS for proxy web browsing: zero privacy.