Steamrip.com is starred on fmhy.net, I trust it. I’ve used it many times with no problems.

Any of the privacy related ones. It’s a very important topic to me so I like to read about it and discuss with like minded people.

I recommend Soulseek as well. You can find almost any audiobook on there, no VPN needed. Use Nicotine+ on desktop and Seeker on Android. iPhone users are out of luck though.