Google and TikTok may seem free, but every click and scroll you make gets packaged into a "user profile" and sold to advertisers. Take Facebook, for example—it makes about $50 per user per year just from their data. In the internet age, if you're not paying for the product, you are the product.
On the contrary are there any free things anymore because everything is being paid for this days including the air that we breathe and water we drink as well nothing is free any longer and it baffles me, so if of all the things these that I mentioned ain't free so how would just an internet provider not be paid for, so this is why they are so expensive because of the wide range of usage and time wasted. Moreso everything free becomes expensive this days cause of the advantages of getting a profits.