Glasswire mobile reassurance - am I now the product?

Hello,
Been a paid Glasswire mobile subscriber for some time.
Recently this has been turned into a completely free product which sends some alarm bells because everyone knows nothing is truly free…

The mobile site states:
“The GlassWire app does not have the ability to send or receive data itself and uses absolutely no data.”

However, when I installed on my latest phone a firewall setting that was automatically enabled says it “Uses some mobile.WIFI data in order for us to add host monitoring in the future”.
Am I misunderstanding or are you now logging which hosts we connect to?

What are the motivations for making the app now free? I know the app was recently bought by another company and - not to cast accusations - often buying companies can look for new ways to monetize.

I would kindly appreciate your reassurance that you are not / will not log our connections whether for legitimate app or business purposes (which would obviously be a huge breach of privacy/GDPR).

Thank you.

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