School, bus station, many other places of my city with free internet.
I also used to steal neighbor’s WiFi for years. Since I was 8 until I was 14. But for larger downloads I used public networks. By larger downloads, I meant >50MB. Yeah. Huge. Though I was watching YouTube quite a bit, usually at 144p/240p. In the end I still spent quite a bit.

Currently I just use mobile data. Still no normal internet connection at home. But hey, my school finally has symmetric gigabit. The only problem is, most classrooms are connected via Fast Ethernet.

Work because I use it at work for work reasons.

Library, I can walk there. Assuming you also mean no phone hotspotting.at home.

Work (for work) and the public library (for personal use).

At the library

If you don’t have mobile coverage, the local library or community centre. MacDonalds is also a popular option.

I’d probably go either to Lowes or Walmart.

Walmart requires an email now, but I set up an anonymous email just for that.

Email: [email protected] Password: Walmart1

It’s registered in their system to the name Anonymous Human. Feel free to use that to access Walmart WiFi anonymously. 👍

Coffee shops.

When I didn’t, I would walk three blocks to the library with my laptop once a day to check my email, read webcomics, look up GameFAQs and stream Gossip Girl.

Maybe the “GameFAQs” gives it away but this was before smartphones.

Bar down the street has free WiFi and food. So probably there. The library is all the way across town, so not a great option for me.

Or there’s another bar close enough to my house that I could probably make an antenna and leech off that. I did that with on base housing back in the day cuz I didn’t want to pay for internet.

Grew up in a home without an internet connection. A friend helped me crack our neighbour’s WiFi password, at the time it was surprisingly easy if you had a copy of Kali Linux.

Work I guess

Def the library. Half the people at my local library are there for that exact reason.