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Originally Posted by robko
What part of "their social gamification" can you not opt out of without a hack?
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I might be misinformed, I don't (yet) have a Kobo reader. If that's the case I'm sorry. That information came from a review I read a while ago which claimed that you couldn't (it was the only part they strongly disliked about the Glo, so it stuck in my mind). Since I'm comfortable with technical stuff I will use the sqlite no-register hack, nuke the gamification and Google Analytics stuff from orbit (hosts), and use some of the modifications provided by Mr. Metazoa.
All that should be provided from the factory as options, however. I pay Kobo cash, I shouldn't have to provide them with info about my personal reading habits as well, nor use an executable from a Russian hacker (no disrespect to Metazoa, but that's what it is) to set sensible defaults. Also, it would be relatively simple for Kobo to obfuscate or even encrypt their firmware to the point where hacking/sideloading FW is impossible. Since the mentioned info is valuable to them the opt-out can possibly be removed in a future FW. So, the important thing is whether Kobo have a customer-friendly approach to how they develop their FW. From what I've read on the forums it seems they don't.
And it seems like I'll still buy it
