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Apple One has over 1 billion subscribers. I’m sure they can afford a loss leader like that.
This is not true. According to a 2022 Press Release, Apple has 900 million paid subscriptions across ALL Apple services. Many of which are App Store-based subscriptions for third party services. The figure also includes things like Apple Care and Apple Financial Services.
The article seems to mostly be talking about imposter websites or tools promoted with ad space, not popular tools like CloudConvert. While I certainly would not use them for documents with sensitive information, there is no reason to believe they steal information and they certainly do not include malware in the download file.