Do you get sucked into customer reward programs or see them for the scam they are?

My mother hates them and I do too. They're a ploy to steal your personal data and then sell it. If you've ever signed up for a customer reward program chances are you've experienced an increase in robocalls, spam in your inbox, fraudulent texts, and even misleading advertisements both in your mailbox and while using the internet. This is not a coincidence, when this happens it means stores saved whatever personal info you used to sign up and then turned around to sell it to data brokers.