Please don’t recommend Google DNS 8.8.8.8 in the DeGoogle community. This would be the last service I’d use for privacy and security. Cloudflare isn’t much better for privacy. Mullvad’s public DNS offering is the best I’ve found that appears committed to privacy and supporting libre projects.
https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls/
Pirating gives me the option not to support shit corporations that fuck over consumers with no business ethics. I can pirate the content I choose and pay for it when I want to support creators.
Historically, pirating and underground markets for good and services begin to proliferate in a society as a sign that their economic system is failing. IMHO, unbridled capitalism and corporate shitification in the US is turning the Internet into a hellscape with 5 companies basically controlling the entire Internet with so much lobbying muscle behind them they remain untouchable through what remains of the democratic system.