But unfortunately, they still suck all your data and sell it to third parties.
It's even worse if you pay, because if you sign in into your youtube account on the offical app, your entire phone is now linked to your a account even if you didn't link it before, with all the data in it. If you are not careful, your entire agenda and calendar immediatly exfiltrate.
Plus google gets your credit card, which means it will now link orders and data from other services using the same card number with its partners and get even more data.
After paying of course, you still can get your accounts locked out for obscure reasons with no appeal, and despite being a customer, have zero service support.
Google is not a respectful company.
And given what we know about the PRISM program, centralizing all this data in there is not good for democracy either.