Maybe the victim in this case is not you, but the company paying for the ads. Think about it this way: You buy a webcam from some company X. The company X want

Maybe the victim in this case is not you, but the company paying for the ads. Think about it this way: You buy a webcam from some company X. The company X wants to sell more webcams, so they buy ads. Amazon shows those ads to you. At the end of the year, company X gets a report saying "we displayed your ads to bigiain, and bigiain bought your webcam" (the little detail that you bought the webcam before seeing the ads is not mentioned). Would this seem to the company X as money well spent?