I got burned way too many times thanks to SD cards, one time I had a very good SD card fail way too early and can’t trust them anymore since then.

If I was supposed to do something like this, I’d consider using a SATA disk with an adapter.

More like effectively a paid-for VPS which, depending on where you live, might cost about €3/mo.

Configuration is all on your end and, to be fair, you may still end up on a blocklist since that’s just a way to bypass their VPN restriction and your IP will not show up to be a residential address.

While I use LibreNMS as it uses SNMP for monitoring (which is pretty much available everywhere), I don’t believe it has http alerts, but I know for a fact that it can send Telegram messages.

That seems legit to me.

DRM content is usually encrypted and only decrypted through some proprietary plugins, so you have to agree to use these plugins if you want to watch these videos.

This is the same mechanism that Netflix and Disney+ use and it helps them by not letting you download movies to your computer.