I’ve had a good time with LibreWolf+extensions. You can have almost the same experience with firefox, though it would take some tweaking.
Riseup-VPN is one of the first things I add to a fresh install. It does just as well as the paid services I tried, though its location options are limited. It breaks sometimes, when it does I just switch to the -git version.*
- for some reason the only version of this working (for me) at the moment is on my Debian 12 install. I’ll have to see if anything’s been reported on 0xacab.
Freetube, using Invidious, is a good YouTube frontend.
EDIT: As far as reddit goes, I haven’t used it in a long time. tux.pizza has a libreddit frontend that’s pretty good.