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@HarryT. I've seen dozens and dozens of people complain on the internet, and I personally sent them a request to get rid of this 'feature' and pointed out, in the request that a lot of people hated it, and would like to disable it.
Amazon does this for a reason, mostly because they want people to stay within their environment completely. This is also very likely why they don't allow almost any competitors (especially android boxes) to access their prime video streaming service. I could rant about this all day, but they do it for multiple reasons, and primarily for money. I don't blame them for it - it's a natural thing, business want to make money - but it really really drives a lot of people nuts, not just me.
@ShamanNS Thanks for the information. I had hoped that the parental control restrictions I read about allowed disabling the 'feature' but damn it all, I guess I'll just have to buy used off ebay or something if I have to replace. Or get used to my kobo or boox.
Yes, I'm very much like you, I side load everything and keep my kindle in airplane mode 99.999% of the time. I actually took it out for about 30 seconds yesterday just to sync the time (it had gotten about 15 minutes out of sync). But before that, it's been 8 months to a year since it was out of airplane mode. When I get books from amazon, I just download them and side-load them anyway, so *shrug*.
As I understand it, they dulled the problem a little, but only having one popup every x minutes (something like an half an hour to an hour) instead of every time you moved/deleted (as it is when first introduced) but again, I don't have a newer model and my firmware is set prior to these newly introduced features so all my information is from boards.
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