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So hypothetically, if you paid $5 a month for this service, you would be confident they were NOT selling your information?

No. A statement's truth doesn't imply its inverse [1].

It simply means if a company has employees, and they're receiving paychecks, and the money is not coming from you, then it's definitely coming from someone else.

If you are giving them money, it doesn't mean they're not also getting money from somewhere else. But they're less likely to need to do that, especially if it would upset their paying customers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denying_the_antecedent



This is implying that you're able to prove that all free products sell/profit from your data.


I think the idea is to help you think about the free services that you use and your privacy, not be a perfect way to describe every free service.




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