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That's how services and products work. If they sold their product at cost, they'd go bankrupt. They're actually charging peanuts for the service they provide.
Their entire infrastructure required to do that proxy and caching is at most 10k a month. Thats a couple thousand users.
What you're actually paying for is their research and development of all that add ridden content they're trying to shove down your throat. Then selling your data, and selling you and your watchers ads.
That's some really expensive peanuts you're suggesting