I use a VPN and my beef is with Cloudfare and similar content delivery networks. Any site that uses them, for example, Camelcamelcamel.com, means I cannot visit their website without disabling the VPN. This even occurred to my own website which is hosted on a british based server, the purpose of which is to host photos of items I sell on ebay. Even my webhost is now preventing users of vpns from viewing the photos in my ebay listings. That feature should be my choice whether to enable it or not. I don't care how people are using the internet but I do want them to view my photos. Pain in the arse.
Similarly Google is very anti-vpn but at least there are alternative search engines such as duckduckgo.com, Presearch and Startpage who don't seem to care.....yet.
Conversely to some here I never watch television or listen to radio. Everything I watch is online and I can't remember when I last logged into iPlayer which is the only terrestrial service provided online that I used. I find there's a lot of very useful content on Youtube but it is Google still. There are alternative means of accessing Youtube content which are in many ways better than the web browser experience. Yes they eliminate providing revenue to the content creators but many of those also use alternative channels such as their own websites or streaming sites, e.g. Rumble.com, and for those who repeatedly provide useful, to me, content then I donate directly.
Facebook, Meta, Twitter, TickTock I stay away from so am unaffected by their authoritative measures against privacy advocates. I am a consumer of Reddit though but again there are, for now at least, alternative means to view Reddit hosted content. Once the Reddit API is blocked to third party apps then I'll just stop using it. It's based on user generated content and if less users use it then it will die a gradual death. I guess that is what is happening to Facebook and why Meta is now being offered up. To me it's tarnished by it's links to Facebook so I'll avoid it completely.
There are always alternatives, not always as slick as the established incumbents but people will slowly learn how to find them and change their habits.