I can’t use my banking app on lineage and those wonderful folk at the bank have made it so that you cant confirm online purchases without.

Never trust a fart.

IRC is where it’s at. In the many years I’ve been using it to download books there’s only been a handful of books I’ve been unable to find.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/2oftbu/guide_the_idiot_proof_guide_to_downloading_ebooks/

I wouldn’t necessarily say shills. I can’t say I know the ins and outs of app development but I’m sure it could come about that a particular dev doesn’t have the know how or capital to start a new project.

What I do know is that I’ve worked for companies who’s morals I don’t approve of to make ends meet.