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Originally Posted by yifanlu
I'm not knocking anyone for trying to block Amazon. I believe you should do whatever you want with the device you own. Personally, I am more surrendering to the fact that many companies' commodity is people. Facebook sells your data, google sells your data, I'm fairly certain apple does, and I guess amazon does too. However, I just assume that everything I do when connected to the internet is 100% public and deal with things that way (instead of trying to "maintain" privacy").
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I live with that fact about google, facebook and the others (although I will never surrender to it!), but to date the experience of sitting quietly with a book, something that's been so important to me practically my whole life, hasn't been tainted in that way. In fact I was right there with KenJackson, unable to deal with using an e-reader, until I saw the hope that Yifan Lu was offering of getting some control over the device, and not giving up a new segment of my private life and habits. I'm a Yifan fan not just because of your technical achievements, but because of the work you do to make the solutions accessible, meaning that people who are not lucky enough to have your level of know-how don't have to just live with being spied by a device they bought. (and by a book of all things! Books should be adored, not viewed with suspicion as a possible corporate agent!)