This is standard for any online store or modern business that operates online. If you sell shit, you let customers create and use a user account on your site so that they can save their billing and shipping info for convenience. This will also include contact info like email or phone number.
Lists might refer to email marketing lists used for newsletters and email ad campaigns. A list like that would probably have stuff like your email address, date or first or last purchase, how much you spend or some other way to rank customers as most likely to respond to a given ad. Every company that does any marketing via email or phone will have a list of customer data that they use for sending out ad campaigns.
Even if Infowars never *used* this info for marketing or hustling data for ad money, they’d still have it somewhere and in the case of trying to sell the store as a turnkey purchase, this will be a valuable selling point for many potential buyers because *they* can use it for marketing and selling to datamongers.
The fact that a company has info on its customers isn’t some strange or implicitly devious thing.
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This is standard for any online store or modern business that operates online. If you sell shit, you let customers create and use a user account on your site so that they can save their billing and shipping info for convenience. This will also include contact info like email or phone number.
Lists might refer to email marketing lists used for newsletters and email ad campaigns. A list like that would probably have stuff like your email address, date or first or last purchase, how much you spend or some other way to rank customers as most likely to respond to a given ad. Every company that does any marketing via email or phone will have a list of customer data that they use for sending out ad campaigns.
Even if Infowars never *used* this info for marketing or hustling data for ad money, they’d still have it somewhere and in the case of trying to sell the store as a turnkey purchase, this will be a valuable selling point for many potential buyers because *they* can use it for marketing and selling to datamongers.
The fact that a company has info on its customers isn’t some strange or implicitly devious thing.