I understand you’re sentiment, but this is a rather misguided argument. I agree, people should be guaranteed privacy as a right, but that doesn’t mean things that offer privacy and security as a service should be free. The reason google can offer a lot of services for free, especially something as demanding as YouTube, is by tracking you and selling you ads. A private world means more services have to be paid for with actual money instead of user data. I encourage you to pay for some privacy respecting services because it works in everyone’s favor: the devs and admins of that service get more money to better their product, and you get a high quality service. If money is tight, that’s understandable and some of these services offer free tiers. All I can think of is Proton Mail at the moment so you might have to do some more digging, but chances are your options are few. If a VPN or really any service for that matter is not respected in the privacy community or is not reputable, steer clear even if it claims it is privacy respecting and has a free tier.