As a Tor node operator, I have been yelling this message into the ether for years now:

Save your money! Accept one of our free tanks! It is invulnerable, and can drive across rocks and swamps at ninety miles an hour

Down sides:

• you really should not stream or torrent over Tor. Both because it sucks others’ bandwidth, and because it can deanonymize you. So no it is not good for YouTube or Netflix.

Plus sides:

• is free as in beer for you
• no payment trail to follow (though you can and should support Tor whether you use it or not because Internet Freedom)
• no corporate entity to trust (why the hell do people still trust corporations?)
• websites you connect to have no idea what your IP address is/where you are
• if you use Tor Bridges like Snowflake, your own government doesn’t know you are using Tor
• people running Tor nodes can either see your IP address, or the address of the site you connect to, but not both
• … unlike your VPN, which knows both exactly who you are, and can inspect and watch the route of every packet you send and receive