For anyone looking to dip their toes in the seven seas
Soulseek is a peer to peer media sharing network akin to limewire
yt-dlp i a command line Youtube video/audio downloader that does hq
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
KissAnime for streaming anime: https://kissanime.com.ru/
Similar sites that let you stream movies/shows/manga are aggregated on sites like TheBestCouchPotatoList:
You can find most free streaming sites through google/duckduckgo searches or pirating communities like the r/Piracy sub on reddit
Anything else can be found on torrent sites, which are usually aggregated on sites like TheProxyBay or r/piracy
If you never left Firefox, neither of them have ever had ads.
Or if you’ve switched to Vivaldi soon enough.
Unfortunately, Firefox has become really slow, especially at work, in my case.