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Old 08-02-2015, 12:45 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Possibly because of the idiots who hacked the Kindle to "tether" it to a PC, thereby providing a PC with Internet access via the Kindle. People repeatedly warned of the likely consequences of this at the time, and the warnings came to pass.
Yes. But apparently the wider access to sites is still available on the Kindle 3. So if all Kindle 3G communication goes through Amazon's firewall, then it appears that Amazon must have made a deliberate decision to allow access to more sites from the Kindle 3 than later Kindle's.
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