I know. What helps is to learn which buttons to click and which ones to avoid. A good adblocker (uBlock for example) and some downloader. Not sure what people use these days, I have JDownloader2.
Still sucks, but it works. Not sure if there's better options out there, I'm not aware of any.
I never buy premium accounts either. I don't want to support their business model. IMO piracy needs to be free. Once I want to pay money, that goes towards the artists who created the content.