[gruez]

>and selling user data to make a quick buck

Are there actually companies that will pay you $$$ for a list of emails?

[jen20]

Not exactly, but plenty will just sell everything to data brokers.

[gruez]

>but plenty will just sell everything to data brokers.

Again, "sell" implies that there's some company where they'll accept data from anyone and pay them for it, which so far as I can tell doesn't exist. That's not to say there's no selling going on. The fact that data brokers exist means they do, but that doesn't mean every business is in a position to "sell" data.

[renewiltord]

It's worth nothing. This is an online myth that marks out the user the way the sentence "Expert in JAVA, AWS, GCP, Oracle, and GIT" on a resume marks out the candidate.

[alt227]

My boss has paid many people for lists of email addresses in the past.

Im pretty sure he is not a mythical being!

[renewiltord]

You can buy it. But companies don’t sell it. Email lists are worth nothing to enterprise.