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Originally Posted by HarryT
It doesn't. The point is that you can't do anything except basic page browsing on the browser of a 3G Kindle, so you're never going to use more than a few MB in a month. Hack your Kindle so you can tether it to a PC and you can - and probably will - use many GB. This is not some harmless hack - it's a criminal act which costs Amazon real money, and a few mindless jerks were responsible for curtailment of the service for everyone. As always, it's the irresponsible morons who spoil things for everyone.
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Tethering is orthogonal to the consumption. Rendering a webpage on a tiny display consumes just as much broadband as rendering the webpage on a large screen - the only difference is what your eyes see. You are controlling the wrong variable here. I can easily do a lot more damage with the FrostWire android app than a desktop browser - in which case the tethering is moot.
If you want to stop someone downloading 5gb, you impose a 5gb limit. Simple.
You're blaming the wrong thing. Amazon's incompetence is where the blame belongs here. If you want to control consumption, then you control consumption, not try to enumerate apps the could be used harmfully, and then prohibit them even when they can be used harmlessly. It's a fools approach.