I had similar thoughts about it but I got fed up a couple of years ago and just installed it. If something doesn't work I will think about if I can live without

I had similar thoughts about it but I got fed up a couple of years ago and just installed it. If something doesn't work I will think about if I can live without it. Most of the time I can, and if not I just whitelist the domain. If you want to temporarily disable it for your computer, maybe switch DNS temporarily? Might even be some plugin for that in the browser?