yes and no are programs iirc.

Duckduckgo is quite good if combined with ublock origin.

Alternatively or also the lite variants of it might be useful to you:

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/ https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/

Why even connect it to the world wide web in the first place

Tidal has some pseudo quality (MQA) which they claim to better than lossless but isn’t at all and just costs more. If you want a streaming service, maybe take a look at something like qubuz where you can buy the tracks to download drm free. Might also wanna take a look at Bandcamp.

Still bugging people about to connect an account

It’s an msix application. (98% certain) For some reason Microsoft set it to upgrade from any Version and prompt or rather forcefully updated to latest version on launch. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/app-installer/update-settings

Certain Skin painting colors (popping color for example) or dyed hair. (Green pink etc)