[NoboruWataya]

I generally agree, and am quite comfortable to pay for services that are important to me like email. Though I am aware that I am in a relatively privileged position where the cost of online services isn't a big deal to me. Facebook and Google have allowed millions of people of more modest means to have reliable access to email, video, search, social media, etc, at the cost of their privacy. I'm not sure how to solve that problem.

The other thing for be is the reputation of the company. I happily pay mailbox.org for email, Bitwarden for a password manager, Mullvad for a VPN, etc. But the idea of becoming a paying customer of Meta just strikes me as icky given their reputation for being anti-privacy and anti-user. It's not really a problem for me now as I don't use Facebook but when they inevitably start charging for WhatsApp I'm not sure what I will do.