BillionsMustSeed

long story short, I bought FFXV long before I cared about Denuvo but never played it, the game got cracked but Square Enix still haven't removed Denuvo from the game on Steam; now I don't want to install Denuvo spyware, if I download the game from Steam, don't launch it, and just overwrite the .exe with the one from a repack, am I in the clear? would it work? I'd like to get the achievements, otherwise I'd just install a repack

Or an easy way to download a small APK directly from the PSV, whichever you know how to do lol

I set up the hotspot on my phone, connect the PSV to it, open VitaShell and launch the FTP server; I use Amaze file manager to set up the FTP client and correctly input the PSV FTP server's IP and port... and nothing, can't connect to it. I've also tried different FTP clients, still nothing.

It would be much easier if I could download the file directly from the PSV, but it's a VPK and I don't have that plugin to download any files regardless of extension; I also tried uploading the file, with an edited extension (.mp4), to several free file hosting sites, but because of the old browser on the PSV I usually get stuck just before I get to it

Any help?

edit: remembered something similar happened months ago, the issue was, and is, me using a VPN. If I disable it, I can connect to the FTP. I still can't move files, or see any folders on the PSV, though