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Then you will be barred ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Your system, your rules but their network and also their rules.

The few shorts I do watch are only from my subs. After I watched the short, I exit and don't enter the doom scroll.
But I agree that thwy are trying harder then when tgey were introduced.

Same here. My weekly usage is about 14h give or take 2h.
At least Youtube doesnt bother me anymore.

I am from Germany where libraries arent crippled to death.
Thing most libraries outside of major city centers don't get the funding.
My local library doesnt have a manga section for example. The library in the next city at least has that but also requires a subscription or a single lending fee.

bring your own IP? Don't you need to register as someone with a node and do BGP routing protocols (forgot the specific terms for the objects)

Society and everything as a whole.
It would need government level of intervention but even that might not be enough.
Just take a look at regular public libraries on how they fare. They look like they barely scrape by at times.

Archive the internet archive. /s

Maybe it could be mittigated by inolenenting a new feature to have every website capture receive a unique hash so that it can be checked?

The amount of VOSTFR content I see om some sites agrees with your observations.

Not if you want public trackers well.
But your point about ipv6 sounds interesting. Care to elaborate?

First I'd propose a nationalization of internet services.
Without that is partly like being without electricity.
Yes, you'd survive but it's damn inconvenient in the modern way of life.

OPs case might have even be easier to solve by using search terms in the respective language. Might not have been the same result and more manual work but maybe satisfactory results.

Decent but not in size. Not for those long seed times with big sizes.
500gb at best at the price.
And good luck getting seedboxes with unlimited upload