The tax authority in my country already uses a proprietary protocol and client

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elster_(Software)

Doesn’t work. It’s possible to let many banking apps think they are running on a normal device although it is rooted.

Just don’t use the services that do this

Yes, why has no one tried that before, 😂

I use the Library or libgen

I went to university but never had to buy a book. My university library offered all the books I needed and an online access to research articles by Springer, Elsevier, and so on. You can get access as a regular person without being an enrolled student.

Did you pay the author of every book you read?

You are still looking at a Facebook post. You simply found a way to feel superior to the people who do it on Facebook.

It’s too niche to be discussed in a generic asklemmy thread.

People pay money to use animated emojis on discord

It’s called power. But yeah, it’s the rate of energy transformed.