You are right, there is no indication it will have ads. But just because it's a paid product does not mean that the cost of the hardware cannot be subsidized by

You are right, there is no indication it will have ads. But just because it's a paid product does not mean that the cost of the hardware cannot be subsidized by ads/data, or will not be in the future. Either way, as I stated above, data and ads are Google's primary business model. It is more a (perhaps-irrational) distrust of Google having the potential to use my data, than of the concept itself. I don't mean to single out Google -- they are generally good with non-intrusive ads in GMail and have a proven track record of security. But it freaks me out that any company would have access to everything I see. Also what happens to all that data when the terms of service are changed (like ToS was changed last year)?