Okay, I learned something. The owners of the forum don't KNOW what ads are popping up. I truly didn't know that, and find it interesting.
As for shoppers benefiting from the data collection, the ads I'm seeing specifically are targeted at doing away with mystery shopping programs. I do not see how I, as a shopper, could possibly benefit from companies doing away with mystery shopping altogether.
And I don't see how the ads relate to my browsing history.; if they were, I'd be getting totally different types of ads. For example, I've never shopped for clothing online, never bought them online, and on other sites (not here) I get ads for clothing.
I don't object to the owners allowing the ads; how else could the forum be free. I was just curious at the recent advent of this particular type of ad, which just started appearing oh, I'd say within the last couple weeks.
@Shop-et-al wrote:
K. Here is the unasked question. Why can't mystery shoppers derive some benefit from mystery shopping and some other benefit from participating in the the other forms of data collection, such as the ones in ads?