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If you don't pay money for something, you are the product. In this case it would be your net flow data. It's not a good idea to use a free service if you're worried about privacy
you're not the product on tor/orbot, protonVpn and riseUp.
Word of caution, If you are actually staying within the Onion network then sure Tor is a great option... The problem is most users just use the exit nodes to reach the clear web. This is a convenient feature of Tor but it's also the least secure use case. There are a very limited numbers of exit nodes so they are often overused and the majority of them are maintained by government controlled entities since it takes a certain level of legal protection to operate an exit node.