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Are you interested in sharing more details to make your claim more believable?

Ya, your reasoning about why the text-only version was ok is what I heard as well. As far as people being on board with this--I did not have to push it through, it was a task that …

You ask great questions. I definitely have regrets about my time working at Amazon. Specifically, I wish that I had pushed back more about doing certain things. Honestly, DRM wasn'…

Yes and no. I actually wrote the code to make this work with screen readers, back when I worked for Kindle in 2018. I even got to test it out with a few Amazon employees who were b…

thanks, I think its fixed now.

It is, I promise :) Email in bio if you have other questions about it you care to ask.

While Amazon does some shady stuff, at least _some_ of the blame here belongs on the big publishing companies. One of the big publishers put heavy pressure on Amazon to patch DRM e…

While Amazon does some shady stuff, at least _some_ of the blame here belongs on the big publishing companies. One of the big publishers put heavy pressure on Amazon to patch this …

You are exactly correct.

I was on the team that wrote this code. We knew it was reverse-engineerable, we just didn't care. Upper management seemed happy enough that it was pretty obfuscated, and we were ha…

I worked on the team that implemented this, years ago! (around 2017-2018) Upper management really enjoyed telling us (the engineers) that we needed to implement more DRM, and we li…