Uff. Well, depending on where you live, there's still old-school linear TV and radio. Piracy... Or the Blueray collection in the local library. They have educational books as well. I don't have my hopes up for services like Youtube, they're all subject of enshittification and privacy-invasive business models. And the proxies like piped.video or downloaders seem to not work all the time, these days. There are Podcasts, though. Blogs and news websites and other privacy respecting services like the Fediverse.

I'm glad my Youtube account still runs without being verified using my phone number. That might change, though. I've lost another Google account due to this.

Youtube doesn’t work when not signed into a Google account, or if one is connected to a VPN.

Youtube works fine without an account? I just checked. It also works fine with a VPN, again I just checked. Maybe this is a country thing, or something with your browser?

ProtonVPN (Paid) does work fine with Youtube for me. I think that VPNs with a small number of servers are gonna get blocked more often that bigger VPNs with more servers (since users are more spread out and it wont seem like there are 10,000 requests coming from the same IP)

As for Movies and Tv, you can pirate.

Invideous is still a thing, so is piped.video

Or try and work together with video creators to use peertube or similar platforms. I understand that this may be next to impossible, but if enough viewers start pushing for it, it is theortically not impossible

Edit: forgot a word that changes the meaning to the opposite if left out

You should check out..

https://futo.org/

Particularly their Grayjay app, but definitely check out their other privacy focused projects as well.

Install jellyfin on your computer, Buy second hand DVDs from people who are selling them, rip them onto your PC.

I'm surprised that no one mentioned NewPipe

I use invidious on my PC and pipepipe on my phone. i highly recommend both.