It seems like they made the same mistake as youtube-dl back in the day. If you develop a tool that can be used for piracy, do not straight up advertise that in your readme/documentation.

If you create a YouTube downloader, do not show it downloading music from major labels, use for a creative commons track for the demo instead.

And dont say in the short description of your repo that this tool is meant to steal books from an online lending library.

You can setup PiHole to block Samsung’s ad servers. Some routers give you the option to block specific websites, that works, too.

The site you have to block:

• samsungads dot com
• samsungtvads dot com

You can use Spotrip. The original developer made his code private in fear of DMCA takedowns, but there are a few forks around.

https://github.com/MikeeI/spotrip

There are a lot of audiobooks available on music streaming sites like Spotify and Deezer. You can download those with Deemix. But that may be limited to certain countries. I am from Germany and here a lot of audiobooks are owned by record companies which publish them on streaming services.

Searching for second-hand CDs on ebay may be worth it, too. I’ve gotten some good deals there as well.

I switched to AirVPN after finding out that Mullvad disabled port forwarding. I have heard rumors that the did that because of people hosting cheese pizza via their VPN accounts.

The performance of AirVPN does vary, I had to try a couple of countries before I found a server that didn’t throttle me (and I only have a 50MBit connection).

Maybe I will try Proton in the future, but then I would have to commit to a 2year subscription or pay a lot more.