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I had my Kobos fake-registered with previous firmware versions, all I can say is that the fake registration (empty values) still worked after updating to 3.19 (didn't test the latest version yet). I'm writing this because I was afraid I'd lose my fake registration when updating to 3.19 (there was a discussion about that here at the time the firmware was released).
To all those "I don't see the problem" people: I'm pretty sure the reader tranfers its (unique) serial number during registration. Combine that with the IP adress used for the registration (and stuff like Geolocation etc.), Kobo already gets pretty interesting information for every registration process. Assuming the serial number is also transferred when looking up new firmware versions and doing other "online stuff" on the reader (which is most probably true), along with the IP adress, and combining this data with the data which has been logged from the Kobo website, Kobo will be able to profile your reader usage in a pretty detailed way. I don't want to give Kobo access to that kind of data if I can prevent it. If you see this otherwise and have no problems with Kobo tracking you, good for you.
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