I’m sure that this will be more expensive to fix than whatever “savings” Elons ghouls have managed to bring.

Just use Jdownloader to download whatever you want from the internet.

I’m really not looking forward to an internet where some mod is banning bots and those bots are then publishing personal hit pieces :(

Do you have a source for that? Everything including Microsoft itself I find tells me that free ESU support for private users will end in Oct 26. Do you mean some paid feature for companies or so?