Pirate it and get a better experience without their awful launcher

Adding to this, what would be the best way to store videos, pictures and music over a long period of time?

Ublock has it built in

Soulseek and donating to the artists you wanna support or buying merch

Searx sucks for images in my experience, startpage was bought by an advertising company, brave is weird for a multitude of reasons but I don't know how good their search engine is as I've never tried it

However I do think that finding a searx instance that works for you and then using another engine like ddg for images is the way to go... You could add a shortcut like ".ddg garbage truck" for easily searching with for example ddg on firefox

Download your stuff with soulseek, sync them between devices with syncthing

God you write like a obnoxious bitch

The problem isn't that they know about me or you. Or that they know wherever we go and everything about us, more than our family or closest friends. That matters too of course, but the bigger problem is that they know this information about everyone and will know it forever. The issue is systemic privacy. Whenever things go to shit, which they will and partly already have, you'll be sorry for not caring about privacy. Caring about personal privacy is rebellion and doing your part in the fight for privacy for everyone

I think Gabe said long ago that whenever steam died, you'd somehow be given all the games you owned still

Buy an old car idiot.

Mpv + youtube redux on my PC and revanced extended on my phone.

Great program, I use it to sync my music and movies/tv show folders to my phone.