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Guys, learn to pirate. If you stick to media and familiarize yourself with filetypes (also enable file extensions, windows users. Chaps my ass that they're hidden by default) then you'll be fine. Nicotine+ for music, qbittorrent+jackett for movies/tv, or the *arr stack if you're fancy, or Usenet if you're paying for it.
Edit: Also use a VPN. I know "but that's a thing to pay for," my dude you should be using one anyway. I recommend Mullvad, maybe Proton.
Call it fracturing the resistance if you like, but I avoid streaming services, and I also avoid pirating. I can find enough through library services, PBS subscriptions, and other free, even ad-free offerings.
I don't like giving media companies the message of "I really am very interested in watching this thing you made! I can't resist not watching it! I just want to avoid paying for it if I can."
seriously, signing back up just for a title won't make them change. It will just lead to them releasing weekly and adding more ads so you have to stay longer and get a worse experience. I don't have a single amazon product but I'm still caught up on The Boys. It's not that hard and you will save so much money.
Streaming platforms broke the piracy truce first. You don't owe them anything.
Real Debrid type service is super cheap and worth paying for for movies and TV, used with stremio you have a near identical experience to Netflix (superior even in some ways).