They only block some Mullvad servers, if I hit the change location button once or twice I always get through. At least on Swedish servers which I usually use.

Apart from when search engines take me there, I stopped Reddit cold turkey the moment they started giving warnings simply for upvoting comments that are hostile towards billionaires.

Haven’t seen a YouTube ad on TV in years. SmartTube works great.

That was always going to happen though, with or without fragmentation. Whether it’s netflix or gamepass or reddit or discord or bluesky or whatever the same enshittification playbook always applies if you’re trying to make a profit: offer a “good deal” until people have bought into your service enough to feel like they can’t do without it, and then start slaughtering the piggies.