For anyone else on the old-OS train and need some extra convincinng, here’s a concrete example of how supporting legacy platforms using creative shims can really ruin your security and privacy guarantees:
It is an incredibly frustrating truth that upgrading your operating system these days (and software in general) comes with the benefits of improved security properties and critical bug fixes, while also introducing unwanted bloat, features, and telemetry. So if you are on Windows 7, I totally get why you would not want to update the something newer with no perceived upside and lots of obvious downside. Windows 7 was hot shit back in the day after all. But this is the reality we are forced to work in.
If you really care about your privacy and security, you should try switching to an operating system which cares about this stuff as much as you do instead of installing shit from advertising companies who also happen to make software on the side.
Linux these days is leagues ahead of where it was during the Windows 7 era, but most importantly if things break you have the power to fix it. Most distros these days have a bootable iso so you can try it out ahead of time, see if you like their default environment and whether there are any hardware incompatibilities.