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Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data

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Re: Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data

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Post by roter »

mmrezaie wrote: post #2

How are the alternatives. Although i will miss my collection of books but I'm going to be in the market for the next ebook reader.

Got my mother-in-law a Kobo Forma. Relatively pricey but I was able to walk her through how to check out a book from her local library via Cloud Library & transfer it to her device. Was a life-saver while the physical library was closed due to Covid-19. I was a little concerned as there were complaints about fabrication but her experience has been very positive.

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Post by badRNG »

I'm sure someone like me always has the same "hot take" in every thread regarding this, but I honestly still love reading physical books. After spending a day weary of interacting with screens all day, there is something nice about tapping in to this activity that humans have done for hundreds of years. Sure, e-ink is easier on the eyes, but isolating myself with a good book can be a near spiritual experience.

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

mmrezaie wrote: post #2

How are the alternatives. Although i will miss my collection of books but I'm going to be in the market for the next ebook reader.

Kobo's have comparable (even superior, IMO) hardware to the Kindle line. The thing that everyone who migrates from Kindle to Kobo seems to get hung up on is that it does not have an option to wirelessly sync books that have been sideloaded across devices. This is because Kobo does not give everyone a private cloud like Amazon does (I imagine it would be prohibitively expensive to do so for anyone but Amazon).

It's not a big deal for me, but apparently it's a dealbreaker for some Kindle refugees that they can't start reading a sideloaded book on their phone and pick up where they left off when they open their Kobo.

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Post by client4 »

I did some research on early Android sending a bunch of data back to Google's servers, a few months later the information was encoded/encrypted before being sent over the wire. I'd be curious if the next app version of Kindle started obfuscating what it was sending back home.

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Post by paranorman »

BCharlie wrote: post #6
paranorman wrote: post #3

Are these requests sent to a separate domain? I may have missed it in the article but it’d be great to know whether we could null route these without disrupting functionality.

That's a great idea! It looks like the 'bad' stuff goes to unagi-na.amazon.com

Awesome, thanks for the quick reply. I'll add this to my pihole config.
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