None of this makes you the product. Which was my main point. Those are both much more to the point. You can say "you are the product" or you can say "I don't know how they make money and it makes me suspicious". Even then, if you don't know that your payment at least covers the costs of the service you're likely no better off by paying and risk exposing payment information. Hell, I'd argue that a proxy service that makes $10 by showing you ads is safer than one that charges you $5. That's the kind of nuance that goes straight out of the window when free services are not so subtly compared to slavery.But with a paid service you statistically seen can get slightly more chances to being not exposed.
But do you honestly think that they will show me their exact, real plans for how to dealing with money income?