do they still make physical copies? if so, I’m pretty sure most indie developers cannot afford that…

you don’t have to make a trip just for that. you can just visit the shop next time you’re nearby.

Except with minors who didn’t even make the decision to install that app themselves.

and who cannot refuse to have it installed on devices they are required to use

that’s a weird repo. It’s empty, and has issues disabled while the repo description says that it’s an issue tracker

Beyond pirating, is there a straightforward way to obtain ltsc?

become a company and pay lots of money

I see, but lite is much less effective. google has worked hard to make it lose its capabilities. it may still be effective at blocking youtube ads (though as it cannot use frequently updatable blocklists it probably has a higher delay for fixes when something breaks), but it cannot have specific rules for less popular sites, because of chrome’s low limit on allowed filtering rules, and even though it can hide ads, that’s not the sole function of ublock origin. ubo is a complex content blocker, with versatile tools to defuse site tracking on lots of websites. lite cannot do that anymore effectively, because both its capabilities have been reduced (e.g. it cannot edit network traffic anymore I think), and the number of filtering rules that it can load.

and even before lite, ubo could not be as effective on chrome as on firefox, because of slight differences in the extension api, with not so slight practical differences.

ublock origin non-lite is the shit to go to