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Originally Posted by sjfan
That's for searches on their store (which will not happen with wi-fi off), not for searches on your device.
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Where do you see that distinction?
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Originally Posted by sjfan
Amazon tracks searches on the Kindle store the same way, as do most other store. Kobo also allows you to turn off reading stat tracking entirely under preferences.
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That's also why I don't have a Kindle.
They may allow you to turn off, maybe, but the point is that they are gathering info when you register, regardless. Once again, they are getting a bit more then any fake email addresses you can come up with. If that's fine with people, enjoy. It's not fine with me.
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I've never registered on their site or used their desktop app (as I mentioned above, you don't need to; just put a bogus line in the local user database and you're good to go), and wi-fi is always off on my reader. It has no networking capability outside of that, so no way to transmit info (personal or otherwise) to Kobo—the only way it's ever got any connectivity is exposing itself as a storage device so I can copy books onto it from Calibre on my Linux desktop.
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I get and completely understand that. I just make the choice not to buy hardware that requires me to mess with sqlite just to use it. I also chose not to support companies financially that sell my info. I'm glad you and others have found ways to get around the hardware limitations, as people always do.