That was the url my personal Z-library url redirects to, unless my personal url was compromised? Like, remember when they first went back online and you had to register to get your own url to access zlib? I’ve just been using that

Try https://z-library.se/ ?

If not, libgen normally has what i’m looking for anyway

I have heard from friends that they got banned for using adblockers on free Spotify. I used a tool, forgot what it’s called, for the brief time I had Spotify Premium where you could give it access to your account via the API and it’d search music piracy websites to download all the songs and albums in your library. After I had downloaded my library I cancelled my subscription. So that was entirely within Spotify’s ToS. (Music piracy is still illegal, but the violation didn’t happen against Spotify.) I suppose if you wanted to do this then doing something like that, where you just look the song up on music piracy sites and don’t actually download from Spotify directly, would be less likely to get your account banned. You still need Premium to access the API, but you could just scrape the webpage if you want.

You are in a piracy community

I don’t “refuse” to pirate anything. If I buy something I see it basically as a donation, that I like what the creator does and want to support them. I tend to buy indie games for that reason; I wouldn’t buy a AAA game because obviously they don’t need the money. Oh, and I buy books if I know the author is actually a good writer, ie if I’ve read something by them before and I want to support their writing. Also seconding what people are saying about FOSS; I’ve donated a lot more to FOSS projects than I’ve paid for proprietary software.