I stopped reading right after here. "All those “out of iCloud storage!” notifications that Apple pushes to your home screen in the hope that you’ll spend money

I stopped reading right after here. "All those “out of iCloud storage!” notifications that Apple pushes to your home screen in the hope that you’ll spend money on services that other companies offer for free." Repeat after me. There is no free lunch. If something's free you're milked in a different way. No company is altruistic to keep offering you services without getting some benefit from you/your data. I pay for my email service. Their business is sustainable and are not motivated to sell my data. They still could, but their terms and conditions I agreed to will prevent them from doing so without getting sued by me.