Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data

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Post by BCharlie » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 1:14 PM UTC

Kindle collects a surprisingly large amount of data
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Post by mmrezaie » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 1:32 PM UTC

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.

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Post by paranorman » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 1:35 PM UTC

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.

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Post by willvarfar » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 1:35 PM UTC

Fascinating investigation and good article.

But this doesn't actually surprise anybody, right?

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Post by BCharlie » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 1:35 PM UTC

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.

Though I haven't analyzed other devices (because I don't own them), they could easily have similar issues. I personally really want an open e-ink device, but I haven't seen one for sale unfortunately. For now, I do Calibre ODPS server with Marvin app on a phone, but it doesn't really compare.

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Post by BCharlie » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 1:36 PM UTC

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

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Post by uberman » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 1:36 PM UTC

I think you mean "Predictably" rather than "Surprisingly".

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Post by Reventlov » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 1:36 PM UTC

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.

I wrote https://remy.grunblatt.org/blog/kobo-aura-h2o-hacking.html a while ago. At some point it sent ISBN to google.

The domain I extracted for my kobo aura:

  api.ipinfodb.com
  api.kobobooks.com
  auth.kobobooks.com
  authorize.kobo.com
  kbdownload1-a.akamaihd.net
  kbimages1-a.akamaihd.net
  mobile.kobobooks.com
  pool.ntp.org
  script.hotjar.com
  social.kobobooks.com
  ssl.google-analytics.com
  static.hotjar.com
  stats.g.doubleclick.net
  storeapi.kobo.com
  vars.hotjar.com
  www.google-analytics.com
  www.google.com
  www.google.fr
  www.googletagmanager.com
  www.msftncsi.com

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Post by bitdivision » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 1:37 PM UTC

I can't find a reference to it now, but I recently read something referencing the massive quantities of kindle data amazon give you when making a GDPR data subject access request. I think it was something like 100k rows of data for one user.

Perhaps I should do that myself.

Edit: You can request your kindle data here (UK version): https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/privacycentral/dsar/preview.html

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Post by anotherboffin » Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 1:37 PM UTC

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.

I don’t know the alternatives, but do know you have software like Calibre in order to keep your book collection despite changing your device.