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Originally Posted by HarryT
It still strikes me as being fundamentally dishonest, I'm afraid.
You've freely and willingly entered into a contract with Amazon, the terms of which are that Amazon give you $20 (or whatever it is) off the price of a Kindle in exchange for you seeing ads. It doesn't matter whether or not you buy anything - you've willingly entered into a contract, and now you're walking away from your side of the deal by removing the ads.
Amazon provide you with a legitimate mechanism for buying yourself out of the contact, by paying the difference in price between the ad-supported and the non ad-supported version of the device.
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There is no "my side of the deal". They offered me a device for some specific price, and I said "OK, I take it". Granted, they offered another device with very similar functionality for a higher price... but I opted for the cheaper one. And it is now MY device, and I can do whatever I want with it.
The parts of the EULA which try to forbid me to do some things like reverse engineering, modifying software etc., are simply void where I live - in fact, these actions are explicitly *permitted* here, by law. I did not agree to these terms of the EULA, because I don't need to. So I don't feel guilty at all.
If I decided to install duokan on it, would I be a fundamentally dishonest person? It would've removed the ads, after all. If I decided to just throw it in the next campfire,.... would I... I would actually NEVER see any ads on that device anymore.