Saudi Arabia also bought EA, which wasn’t a great company to begin with.

Nvidia Shield. It uses Android but you don’t have to add a Google Account. You can also install a custom rom like LineageOS but you will lose some features: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/foster/variant1/

https://fmhy.net/reading

I had one of these CAPTCHAs recently and it still gave me the option to verify by clicking the squares. I wouldn’t be surprised if they phased out the ‘legacy’ verification though.