Once again begging people to give up on "if you're not paying for the product you are the product" because I've seen so many people who now think if you are paying for a product your data is totally safe now forever because if I'm paying the company money they don't need to sell my data
When instead they could also sell your data and get Two Money
I'm calling this the Two Money rule of data privacy, paying doesn't make your data safe
Whether or not you're paying has no bearing on whether you are or are not the product.
That has a lot more to do with the people in charge of the product and how big the company is.
A tiny open source hobby project may be free AND not sell your data. A company that sells you a product may also sell your data for Two Money. There's not actually a correlation between whether you're paying and whether your data gets sold anymore.
@lori im getting increasingly often the impression that this, as well as its brother "you get what you pay for" is said mostly from people who want to sell products that can not easily judged for their quality