As many people know, online surveys for pay are mostly scam operations. Labor and consumer information for very little to no compensation. They do not make you money. I repeat! No Money!!!
So I was thrown by the grossness of being served this lovely advert on youtube while watching a vice documentary:
Vice voices is a survey service you can sign up for and “earn rewards.” So I registered to see if this waste of time led to any different content. The short answer is that it did not. The only way I could be offered more surveys was if I lied about my income and claimed I owned a boat and tennis rackets. These surveys quickly turned into consumer bullshit again.
Though the initial vice survey did ask me for my opinions on different vice content channels. I was able to ask “why are all your journalists hot?” and comment: “I don’t need them to be hot! I just want vetted content.”
This is where things get gross again: Vice is a corporate entity. All corporations are about growing profits first even if they produce news content. The secondary company hosting the surveys was: 
Apparently this large private company has a lot of bad reviews for paying out it’s promised rewards:
Also I thought this was a beautiful article with the “Vice Voices” survey program advertised on the same page. With everything we’ve learned from Cambridge Analytica, surveys feel like a pretty dated and legal way to get consumer information. I would love to read more statistics on this subject but I have not found a lot of long form journalism on the subject.
