Buy physical copies. If you can’t do that, download full installers w/no cloud launchers, and back up those mofos… and find no-CD / no-Steam / offline cracks. If that doesn’t work, torrent hacked versions as a last resort. Own your games goddammit, you paid for them.

This reads like AI slop. Or, even worse, new age gibberish. Also substack which is a walled-garden blog platform. Downvoted.

On desktop: uBlock origin (Vivaldi or Firefox). On mobile: Newpipe and AdAway (VPN mode, or rooted phone).

archive.is or their mirrors should also be used, as archive.org has proven vulnerable to takedown requests from corporations, wouldn’t surprise me if they could be coerced into removing their data by USA govt request as well.

Interesting fact, thanks.

As they say though, even a broken clock can be right twice a day

Use of a phrase doesn’t automatically imply agreement with its originator.