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I don't understand you at all - you find it bad that websites make money off people? So you don't want someone to make money off you, even if it comes at no harm to you? I can't think of a word to describe your thinking honestly. Why don't you flip the tables though. You enter an Apple store, you're wasting their space in their store. You're using the time of their employees, since usually there are 100 of them and a few approach you asking if you need a hand etc. I dunno what else, maybe you result in cleaning needing to be done later, little bits of fluff (yeah I know this point is stupid, but it's less stupid than "ads using up my resources wow my rams and cpus"). For a website, your using their resources. Their servers have to serve content to you. Bandwidth, emails, perhaps the amount of resources after many users results in another node needed to have a round robin setup. Even a non-paying user causes the site to have to pay more, while Apple doesn't have to pay as much for you entering and leaving their store.
Regarding HMRC, you need to declare your business. Even if you make $0.01. You're legally required to declare your business. You can declare yourself as (many types, but the most "basic") a sole trader or a limited company. A sole trader needs his address submitted, as well as the trading name and the name of the person. DOB and some other info as well as your National Insurance Number afaik. A limited company requires a registered company address (usually same as the first director), at least 1 director and 1 shareholder. These also need their address, DOB, etc. At least the director does, not sure about the shareholder. Again, this discussion is really off what it was even about. It was about something else completely and now we're arguing HMRC and CH, EU law and analogies about Apple and websites.
