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Originally Posted by dkgmunich
Hello All,
As suggested by Anthem that I may want to consider Kindle. Well I dug once more into the whole review thing. Yes I do agree that kindle seems good value for money.
Just that amazons big brother attitude is what I don't like.
So I actually also parsed through the jail breaking section for kindle.
What I have understood is once I jail break I can break away from amazon 100% and install updates via USB.
But if I don't then amazon servers will have full control over the device, including any browsing, location and any side books I load on to the device, and not just the ones I purchase via amazon. I understand is they want to have their cloud storage as primary and hence have a mirror of my data on their servers.
Am I correct in my understanding?
Thanks & Regards,
-Dhiraj
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If by "full control" you mean "full knowledge of everything you do or use", then yes. Any device for which the source code has not been released and vetted can theoretically be doing absolutely anything. On that note, do not ever buy a smartphone or tablet (unless it runs a community-developed OS) as even Android is not open source after google and device manufacturers and carriers apply their modifications.
Do I have any worries that they are doing so? No. As ever, everything must have a motivation, or no one would go to the bother of fill-in-blank-here.
Amazon is probably tracking every aspect of my reading their books (hard to see how Kindle Unlimited works otherwise) but I highly doubt they are also tracking sideloaded books. In any event, there is a hack here for that. Look for the BBB Firewall (Block Big Brother).