I pretty much only use it for music, and most of the extensions have still gotten me by. At least long enough to rip the song to my hard drive for offline use. Fuck $16 a month. That’s ridiculous. For $16 I could get an album or two every month and not have to worry about some buffering bullshit. After a year, not only would I be supporting the artists directly and avoiding paying paying a scummy company, that I’d actually have some discographies built up permanently.

How would someone, hypothetical, do that ripping part?

Kind of janky but maybe something like this? soundclouddl.cc or something like this perhaps github.com/archisvaze/arcdlp if you just use a search engine to look up YouTube to MP3 or something to that nature or you can find a lot of different results. I think they even make browser extensions as well.