I’m looking to get a new router, but all of the ones I’ve found try to force a mandatory internet connection/account creation to activate them without any bypass methods (at least that my searching could find).
Is there any way to get a new router to work without connecting an account to it? Or a way to bypass it? If not, is there a specific used router that might be more privacy friendly?
I don’t need anything special, it’s just home wifi.
Not quite clear to me, what you actually need. Only WiFi - then you’d need an access point, not a router. A router wold have something on the other end too, like fiber or ADSL.
I have a modem. I connect the Ethernet cable from the modem into a wifi router.
That usually means a WiFi-Ethernet router. ADSL requires a modem, which can be a standalone bridge modem or a modem-router. I’ve found it better to have modems and routers separate.