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I've been using a bunch. I've tried liftoff, Jerboa, the official PWA and wefwef. So far, I'm liking the vibes I'm getting from liftoff.

Mizu (aka the cant shit for 3 days guy) is the only real celebrity on this platform

Being realistic here, there's no worthwhile competitor to youtube at this point in time. You have some stuff like odysee, LBRY, peertube etc. However, the amount of content on them is basically nothing compared to youtube and there's little incentive for creators to move there due to how difficult it would be to monetise your content in those places.

My best pick would be invidious which is a private & ad-free yt frontend that uses it's own API and doesn't need JS. I already use it all the time. It's good.

Between Brave, Mullvad and Librewolf, you really can't go wrong. They all offer great privacy features and ship with adblockers out of the box (the latter 2 ship with uBlock). It's worth mentioning however that the chromium project is going to transition to MV3, which will cripple the functionality of a load of addons, including adblockers (although Brave's built in one will be unaffected).

As for Firefox, I recommend you steer away from it and choose one of the aforementioned forks of it instead because they will give you better results in terms of privacy. Alternatively, you could use the Arkenfox user.js, however it's no longer as well maintained due to being made redundant by the plethora of privacy browsers out there already.

I'm also going to go ahead and give an honourable mention to the firefox css community who have made some insanely impressive themes for Gecko based browsers. You can view some of them here: https://firefoxcss-store.github.io/ They're one of the main reasons I'm using a Gecko browser :)

I salute your creativity haha

If you're satisfied with mullvad, i would stick to it. The main problem it runs into is that it doesn't support port forwarding which is an issue if you use torrents a lot. That's the main advantage that proton reserves.