Firefox with uBlock Origin is wonderful. I've found that also adding NoScript is very handy, even though it can sometimes be annoying. In general, anything that requires I play "Javascript Roulette" is unlikely to be worth wasting my time on.

In general, the author's approach resembles mine with a few detail differences, and I never got onto Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc. in the first place. I'm not completely de-Googled (unrooted Android phone here), but I do keep them at arm's length. Windows 10 is such a non-starter for me that when I bought a new laptop last year, before I even powered it up the first time I yanked out the SSD, replaced it with a bigger one, and then loaded Xubuntu on it.