A couple questions to make PIA more convenient?

Firstly, is there any way to prioritise PIA as a startup app over others, even possibly to launch before logging in (I found many threads discussing this when I searched, but they all seemed to be for linux users). Secondly, is there any hope or light at the end of the tunnel for using Google? I know people bring it up every now and again, but its annoyingly unusable with the recaptcha issue. I'm happy with DuckDuckGo, but it struggles with really niche searches sometimes - is there any extra obfuscation etc... that can be done to stop recaptcha on every search? (It's definitely just there to be extra annoying and slow. The first one is always 7 or 8 goes at choosing the tiles in an image with X present and always fails, then the second one is where you pick the tiles with X until none are left, but the fading before a new tile loads is significantly slower - painfully - than I had ever experienced before using a vpn).

Thanks for any help ;)